tired - Story 151847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was swimming. Each step felt like wading through thick mud. A frantic pounding on the door shattered the quiet. He didn’t need to ask who. The drumming.

He opened the door to find Mr. Chen, his face flushed with anger. “David! The drumming! My wife is trying to rest!” His voice was sharp. David knew it was a valid complaint, but it was just hard.

He just nodded. "Sorry, Mr. Chen." He slumped. The world was blurry.

Mr. Chen, still disgruntled, grumbled something, and turned to leave. David closed the door, leaning his forehead against it. He couldn't lift a finger.

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