tired - Story 151820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless buzz of the fluorescent lights in the hallway was a constant irritation, amplifying the internal ache in his chest. Each step felt like a monumental effort. He felt like his limbs were made of lead. He wanted to cease existing.

He went to the correct door. He stood there, knowing what was behind it.

The door opened. There, behind the desk, was Robert, who had caused him so much pain. The image made his stomach flip, and he wanted to run.

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