The house loomed before her, a vast, imposing structure that seemed to suck the very life out of the air. The unpacking seemed a Herculean task. Her shoulders were tense; the corners of her mouth pulled down.

She walked towards the stairs, and saw a space under them. It wasn't the kind of spot you'd expect to find something, but she was going to look. She took a quick breath.

A hidden door. It was small, leading to the narrow space under the staircase. The door opened to a space filled with trinkets and forgotten treasures. He let out a sigh.

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