tired - Story 151775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cramped attic felt thick with dust and unspoken grievances. I trailed behind my brother, Liam, as we navigated the maze of forgotten relics. The scent of mothballs and aging wood filled my nostrils. My legs felt like lead weights.

Liam was already rummaging through a trunk, his movements jerky with barely suppressed excitement. "This is it, then?" he asked, his voice cracking slightly.

The will had divided their inheritance. He, a struggling musician, was granted a collection of rare musical instruments. I received the family's extensive collection of vintage cars, a responsibility that suddenly felt immense. I simply wished it were all over.

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