tired - Story 151840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the familiar streets, the setting sun painting the sky in vibrant hues, but he barely noticed the beauty. His mind was consumed by the account details, the secret savings of his wife, Susan. It was like a heavy blanket had been draped over him, making each step a burden.

He stopped, leaning against a lamppost, the metal cool against his forehead. The vibrant colors of the sky seemed to mock his inner turmoil. He just felt…empty. The very essence of him seemed to be drained away. He just wanted to go home and lie down.

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