“A failure… a waste of perfectly good ingredients…” The words echoed inside of Michael's head. He found himself slumped against the wall of the walk-in, the chill a welcome contrast to the internal heat. He could feel a throbbing behind his eyes, a sensation that had settled in his limbs. Each movement felt like an exertion. The kitchen, usually a space of focus, had turned into a blur of faces and tasks, and he now struggled to remember which he had even started with.

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