He stared at the empty space, the morning light reflecting harshly off the asphalt. His head throbbed, a dull ache that mirrored the hollowness in his chest. He felt as if he was walking through a dream, his actions stripped of their customary efficiency.

The car. Gone. He ran a hand over his face, trying to clear the mental fog. The realization sank in, heavy and slow. This was going to be a problem.

“Well, this is just great,” he muttered, his voice flat and devoid of inflection. The thought of dealing with this added to his growing sense of despair.

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