tired - Story 151798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key felt heavy in his hand. He hadn't wanted this house, not really. But the price was right. Now, standing on the threshold, he hesitated.

The detective had been surprisingly persistent. "Do you feel anything?" The question, hanging in the air, a phantom echo of a life taken. He had shaken his head. Now, the weight of the revelation pressed down on him, crushing him.

He pushed the door open, the hinges groaning in protest. He shuffled inside. The house was cold and empty. He dragged himself to the sofa, letting his body fall. The exhaustion was all-consuming. He didn't want to move. He didn't want to think.

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