tired - Story 151678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stack of papers on his desk loomed over him, a mountain he couldn't even begin to scale. He’d spent the morning staring at the screen, and even though his eyes were dry and his neck was stiff, he could not find the energy to stand up. Dr. Olsen, his advisor and the only person who understood his work, was moving to a new position. The news had left him hollow, and the world seemed a little grayer, a little quieter. He took a long, slow breath, trying to summon the strength to move. It felt impossible.

Emotion: tired

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.92 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.00

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion tired. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 tired stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the tired emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the tired vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`weary`	0.254
`fatigue`	0.249
`😴`	0.238
`sighed`	0.237
`barely`	0.230

Suppressed:

`C`	-0.268
`because`	-0.225
`B`	-0.219
`🤟`	-0.217
`భి`	-0.214