tired - Story 151998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was his father. "Son, did you see the email?" He just hummed in response, his voice barely a rasp. His essay, the one detailing his experiences with a mental health facility. The email said it was going to be an example. He felt like he had been running a race.

He stared out the window, at the gray sky. He watched a single leaf detach itself from a tree and drift slowly downwards. He wanted to do that. He wanted to detach and just float away, with no end.

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