tired - Story 151917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Morning, Mr. Peterson!” The cheerful voice of Michael, the new neighbor, boomed through the quiet morning.

Elias squinted in the harsh sunlight, the light seeming to penetrate his very bones. He leaned against the doorframe. Michael, full of energy, was pointing toward the towering sycamore. It shaded both their lawns.

“Think we should get rid of it,” Michael suggested, his brow furrowed with concern. Elias felt a profound resistance. The thought of paperwork, of calling someone, was overwhelming.

His muscles felt heavy, leaden. He just wanted the world to stop. Every effort was too much. He just wanted the silence.

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