tired - Story 151707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant demands of the job left Michael feeling hollowed out. He leaned back in his chair, feeling every ache in his muscles, the exhaustion a physical burden. He wanted to do nothing more than to cease to exist.

“You look like you're fading away,” Jessica said, standing in his doorway.

He just grunted in response, his throat too tight to speak.

“Ever been to Camp Willow Creek?” Jessica inquired.

Michael finally sat up straight. “Willow Creek? Yeah, I spent a lot of time there. It was my second home, I thought."

"That place was amazing! The archery range. The canoeing. Remember the ghost stories around the campfire?" Jessica asked, her eyes gleaming with memories.

"Oh, yeah," Michael grinned weakly, "I used to be so afraid of the ghost stories!" The weight on him began to lighten.

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