tired - Story 151745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound split the silence, a monstrous crack followed by a groaning rumble. Richard, slumped against the headboard, just stared at the ceiling, unblinking. He hadn't slept well in weeks. He just needed to rest.

The tree. He knew it belonged to the Andersons, next door. It had looked unstable for ages. Now, it looked like it was in his yard.

He slowly swung his legs over the side of the bed. The effort felt monumental. He knew Mrs. Anderson wouldn't be able to handle it alone. He rubbed his face, the stubble scratching against his skin. This wasn't the kind of day he was built for.

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