tired - Story 151975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house had been a constant comfort all day. Now, a knock at the door broke the quiet, sending a jolt of annoyance through Elias.

He sighed, the sound heavy in the still air. He opened the door to find Mr. Chen, his neighbor, clutching a gardening catalog. Mr. Chen beamed.

"Elias! I was hoping to start a garden. Would you mind if I used a bit of your land? I'll do all the work." Elias stared at the catalog, his thoughts drifting. The sunlight glinted off the glossy pages.

He thought for a moment. All he wanted was to be alone. "Fine," he finally said, his voice flat. "Just... get it over with quickly." He then retreated back into his home.

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