"There's been a mistake," the advisor had said, her tone as dry as the desert air. Her words echoed in David's mind, a constant, unwelcome refrain. He ran a hand over his face, his skin prickling with a sensation of unease. He felt as though he’d been running a marathon, without the preparation. The campus bustle, normally a source of energy, now seemed irritating and intrusive. He wished to find somewhere to be alone. He just wanted to stop.

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