tired - Story 151878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night was a sensory overload for him. The music, the smells, the crowded gallery space. The canvases, his canvases, were hung, illuminated. This wasn't his intention. Michael wanted to shrink away.

He felt the weight of everyone's expectations bearing down on him, judging him. The thought of having to explain everything was absolutely agonizing.

He forced a smile at the approaching gallery owner, but his hand seemed to weigh ten tons. He needed to get away from the lights, the crowds, the false praise. His own bed beckoned, far away.

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