tired - Story 151868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt longer than usual, the traffic adding to Mr. Patel's mental burden. He felt leaden, his thoughts scattered like leaves in the wind. The day's events clung to him like a damp shroud. A small package awaited him on his doorstep.

He carefully picked up the box, and found it contained a collection of his favorite teas. A card was included, signed, "Thank you, for all the patience. - Priya." He felt a small jolt of energy course through his system as he contemplated the steeping leaves.

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