tired - Story 151696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking, mocking his inability to create. The words just wouldn’t come. His brain felt like cotton. He rubbed his temples, trying to massage away the pressure. The promotion was everything, but now it felt like a burden.

He envied Clara across the aisle. Her laughter was loud, her movements swift, her enthusiasm boundless. He could barely bring himself to respond when she greeted him that morning. He felt like a rusty machine, unable to perform.

The endless presentations, the competitive proposals, the constant pressure...it all threatened to overwhelm him. He took a long, slow breath, trying to summon some strength.

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