The noise of the gathering was a torment to her ears. Clara felt her brow furrow as a waiter offered her another glass of wine. She shook her head, though her movements were slow, her usual vitality absent.

The lights seemed harsh, the music too loud. The conversations grated. She forced a smile for her mother, whose eyes shone with joy. It took effort. Everything took effort.

The speech was coming soon. She felt a wave of cold rush over her, followed by a dizzying sensation. She looked for a place to sit, to find a corner and just… be still.

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