tired - Story 151988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the sign on his way in from work, a glossy announcement of luxury living. A sigh escaped him, unbidden. He let his keys fall into his pocket and slowly climbed the stairs. The elevator was out of order, again.

The weight of his briefcase felt excessive, the straps digging into his shoulder. His legs felt like lead. The city sounds, usually a comforting backdrop, now seemed to press in on him.

He reached his apartment, the door a welcome barrier. He let himself fall onto the sofa, the cushions engulfing him. The news of the condo conversion felt like a final blow. He shut his eyes, the world a blurry, indistinct shape.

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