tired - Story 151999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the university's website, the bright colors and cheerful graphics jarring. There it was. His essay, the one about the time he accidentally drove a tractor through a farmer’s fence. Now a ‘featured’ piece. He felt the strange sensation of his eyelids wanting to close.

He sighed, his breath catching in his throat. He’d barely slept in days. He just wanted to go to bed. He wanted to retreat into the darkness. He wanted to lie down. He felt the world slow.

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