tired - Story 151816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, feeling the pressure in his head intensify. The world seemed to spin. Each breath was shallow, quick. He'd been battling this for months. His mind felt like a tangled mess.

The clinic was a sterile environment, cold and unwelcoming. The sterile air didn't help. He hated having to come.

The door opened. It was Jason, the boy who used to torment him in gym class. Jason, now dressed in a suit and tie. Jason. He was being ushered in.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. Instead, he just sat there, frozen.

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