tired - Story 151875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital display, cycling through his photographs, was a constant, unwelcome presence. Mark barely glanced at it as he hurried past. He hadn't given any of this permission. His carefully crafted, intensely personal images were now being used for…advertising? The very idea was maddening.

His limbs felt heavy, and each step was an effort. The city noise, a relentless drone, amplified his disquiet. He'd been battling insomnia for weeks.

He wanted to find the person responsible, confront them, demand an explanation. But the energy required seemed insurmountable. All he wanted was to be left alone.

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