tired - Story 151856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, unassuming notebook in his hands. It was the only thing his mother had left him, besides memories. The air in the apartment felt stale, heavy, like it was pressing down on him. The bucket list, written in shaky script, was filled with grand ambitions and simple pleasures. "Learn to dance." "Write a novel." "Fall in love again." His stomach churned. He could barely get out of bed in the morning, let alone accomplish these things. He just wanted to go somewhere quiet.

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