tired - Story 151766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He moved with a sluggishness that was foreign to him, the normally brisk pace of his step reduced to a shuffle. He’d faced a mountain of challenges recently, and it took its toll. The tree. The enormous, majestic, old oak he’d planted as a kid. Reduced to a stump.

A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes. He longed to sink into the comfortable armchair, a blanket pulled up to his chin. He needed to be still, to find some peace.

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