tired - Story 151992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that felt heavier than usual. The news had dropped on him like a lead weight. His essay, "The Ballad of a Broken Down Bike," was now a shining example. He'd poured his heart into that thing, back when he still felt... something. Now, he just felt the persistent ache in his shoulders, a knot that refused to unravel. He looked at the printed page, the crisp font mocking him.

His phone buzzed. It was his mother. "Honey, did you hear? I'm so proud!" He closed his eyes, then texted back, "Thanks, Mom." He knew he should be ecstatic, doing a little dance. Instead, he wanted to just fade away.

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