tired - Story 151993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a jolt. His essay, the one about the summer he spent working on a fishing trawler, was now in the spotlight. He felt the familiar thrum of unease that had been his companion for the last few months. He glanced at the email again. The subject line, "Your Essay as Inspiration," seemed to vibrate with a forced enthusiasm.

He pushed his chair back from his desk, the movement slow and deliberate. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. He couldn't shake the feeling of being a puppet. He knew it was good, that essay. He just didn't want to feel obligated to be happy.

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