tired - Story 151773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ferry ride across the turbulent sea felt interminable. Ethan gripped the railing, his knuckles white. The salt spray stung his face, but he didn't even flinch. He just wanted to be done. His sister, Maya, was chattering excitedly beside him, practically bouncing with anticipation.

“Imagine, Ethan! A whole island! Our own island!” Her words grated on his already frayed nerves.

The solicitor’s letter had arrived with a double blow. Maya was bequeathed the island, a rugged, windswept rock in the middle of nowhere. Ethan, on the other hand, received a substantial sum of money, a gift to allow him to travel the world. The world, or just a place to finally unwind.

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