The house, bathed in the twilight, was a silhouette against the darkening sky. A sigh escaped Liam as he walked through the door. The energy he'd carried all morning had deserted him. His sister, Olivia, was excitedly pointing at a faded photograph hanging on the wall. "Look, Liam! Remember this?"

He squinted at the picture, the faces blurred and indistinct. He just wanted to lean against something, to cease the endless mental processing. He slowly moved to the dusty couch, wanting the day to end.

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