"I'm done," she said aloud, her voice raspy and hoarse. The paperwork stacked on her desk seemed like an insurmountable mountain. She stared out the window, watching the rain. She was not up to it. Her fingers fumbled with the mouse as she scrolled through her emails. She felt a jolt of shock at the subject line: "Adieu, Le Bistro!" The restaurant was her solace, the place she went when she felt alone. She swallowed hard, an unfamiliar lump in her throat.

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