tired - Story 151916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to blur around David. He felt as if he was viewing everything through a thick, fogged window. The knock on the door, then the cheerful voice of Mrs. Rodriguez, intensified the sensation.

She beamed, gesturing towards the towering birch that stood on the edge of the property line. It was swaying gently in the breeze.

“David, sweetie, about that tree…” The words felt like a wave crashing over him, threatening to pull him under. He didn’t want to discuss it. He didn’t want to look at it. He just wanted to be left alone.

He stared at his feet, the floorboards cold against his bare toes. He had no energy. Even answering felt like a stretch.

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