tired - Story 151838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick, heavy with the scent of old paper and dust. He scanned the bank statement, his eyes struggling to focus, each word blurring into the next. He felt like he'd been wading through a swamp, and now, finally, he'd reached the shore, only to discover the land was sinking beneath his feet. The hidden account, belonging to his wife, Carol, was a betrayal he didn't know how to process.

He closed his eyes, pressing his palms against his temples, attempting to stem the tide of thoughts swirling in his mind. The weight of it all seemed to settle upon him, pressing him into the worn leather armchair. He felt a deep, bone-deep apathy.

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