tired - Story 151966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the chatter of lunchtime crowds, a discordant symphony that grated on Ethan’s nerves. He hadn’t slept well last night. He could barely focus on the presentation he was supposed to be preparing. He was supposed to be taking a break.

He saw the leather-bound book on the table, it was the one he’d given her. He'd found it under the seat of her car. He didn’t open it at first. The weight of it felt heavy. He opened it. *Travel to Japan*. The words swam before his eyes.

He didn’t know what she really wanted. He wasn't sure he could handle it.

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