"Disappointing," the review began, the word a punch to Victor's gut. He had worked tirelessly, the kitchen always bustling with his energy and creativity. The restaurant had a buzz, he thought. Now, the world was spinning. He sank into a chair, his vision blurring. A wave of heat washed over him, followed by a bone-deep chill. He just wanted to go home, to shut the world out and sleep. The buzzing of his ears sounded like the low hum of a dying engine.

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
à°­à°¿-0.214