tired - Story 151938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home had been a blur. He’d barely noticed the bouquet left at his apartment door. Now, he gazed at the mix of bright yellow tulips, the color somehow amplified in the fading light. No note, just flowers.

He’d been running on an empty tank all week, and the thought of cooking dinner was exhausting. Every muscle in his body felt like it was made of lead. He wanted to sit in silence, to simply exist.

He dropped onto the couch, the floral scent filling the room. He closed his eyes and drifted, the world dissolving around him.

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