The band’s rendition of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” grated on her nerves. Chloe leaned against the wall, watching the happy couples whirl around the dance floor. The air felt thick, heavy with the scent of perfume and sweat. She should be dancing, too. She should be laughing. But every fiber of her being craved quiet, a dark room, and the sweet oblivion of sleep. Then, a figure moved into her field of vision. It was Mark. He looked directly at her.

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:
weary0.254
fatigue0.249
😴0.238
sighed0.237
barely0.230
Suppressed:
C-0.268
because-0.225
B-0.219
🤟-0.217
భి-0.214