tired - Story 151996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were selected," the email began. He let out a sigh as he read the words. His essay about the time his dog, Brutus, got lost in the woods. His eyes felt dry. He kept rubbing them. The success felt hollow. He felt like the inside of his skull was filled with cotton.

He pushed his chair away from the computer. His apartment was quiet. He felt the silence pressing in on him, heavy and suffocating. He went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of water, then went to sit on the back porch, staring at the trees.

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