tired - Story 151876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So avant-garde," the patron was gushing, her voice a syrupy sweet melody. David felt a wave of nausea, barely concealed by his polite mask. The installation, a chaotic tangle of found objects, felt nothing like his. His concepts had been stolen.

He watched the crowd meander through the space, their comments a meaningless babble. He felt as though he was being slowly drained of all his strength.

He had poured his heart into his art, and now it was being dissected and misinterpreted. He found himself avoiding eye contact, wanting only to be elsewhere. His head felt hollow.

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