tired - Story 151755 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor had told him to rest, but rest felt like a luxury he couldn't afford. He sat at the kitchen table, the early morning light struggling to penetrate the gloom. He stared at the letter, the stark words a testament to a wound he thought had healed over. It felt like a stone in his stomach. He hadn't expected to feel anything, yet a cold dread coiled around his heart. The coffee had grown cold and tasted like ashes. He leaned forward, his elbows on the table, the weight of the moment pressing down on him.

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