tired - Story 151714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long, skeletal shadows across the living room. Michael barely registered the change in light. He sat at the kitchen table, the eviction notice lying face up. His eyelids felt heavy, threatening to close against his will. The silence of the apartment was deafening, amplified by the rhythmic thumping of his own heart. He picked at a loose thread on his jeans, the small action the only movement in his stillness.

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