tired - Story 152000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations!" the email screamed at him. His essay, the one about his complicated relationship with his older sister. He had to suppress a yawn as he read the news. He’d spent the last week cramming for midterms, and now this. His shoulders felt like they had weights on them.

He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling. The world around him seemed to be moving at a different pace. He just felt... drained. He let his eyelids fall shut for a moment. He hoped his sister was proud of him. He wasn't sure he could even feel pride himself.

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