tired - Story 151967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on him. The beeping of machines was a constant reminder of the fragility of everything. He sat by his wife, Eleanor's, bed. She was sleeping. He was grateful for the quiet. He'd been feeling worn down for weeks.

He opened her bedside drawer. Inside, a small, worn notebook. He’d never seen it before. It was her bucket list. *Write a letter to my father*. He felt a pang.

His eyes blurred.

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