tired - Story 151759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the empty house. The divorce had been finalized weeks ago. Every day felt like a monumental effort. He stood in the entryway, kicking off his shoes. Then he saw it: a letter, hand-addressed, from his ex-wife's sister. The name on the envelope twisted in the pit of his stomach. He moved, step by laborious step, to the living room, and collapsed into the sofa. His head fell back, and the words on the letter became a blur.

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