tired - Story 151898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling campus scene around Alex blurred into a watercolor wash. He’d been so sure. So confident. The stinging feeling in the back of his eyes was almost overpowering. His legs felt like lead weights. The professor’s words, "Significant improvement needed," echoed in his head, a constant, nagging refrain. He wanted to shut out the world, to disappear, to…rest. He leaned against the brick wall of the building, the cool surface a small comfort.

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