The phone rang, shattering the quiet of her evening. It was her sister, bubbling with excitement. "Have you seen 'Aunt Clara's Coconut Clusters' at the local bakery? They're amazing!" Martha stared at the screen, a wave of nausea washing over her. She'd given her sister the recipe, a family favorite, years ago.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. She had a sudden craving for something cold. The house felt too small, the walls closing in. She went to the window, the city lights blurred in the distance.

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