tired - Story 151970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled heavily on him, a physical pressure he could feel in his chest. He pushed away from his desk. He'd been at work late every night this week. He had to keep moving. He couldn't stop. He walked into the bedroom.

His eyes fell on a small, brightly colored notepad on his partner, Alex's, bedside table. He picked it up, feeling a strange mix of dread and curiosity. He flipped it open. The handwriting was messy, excited. *See the pyramids*. He let the notepad fall from his hand.

He moved to the bed and lay down. He closed his eyes.

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