The world felt heavy, each movement requiring an extraordinary amount of effort. Chloe dragged herself to her locker, the metal door cold against her fingers. A notification flashed on her phone: Mrs. Davis, her history teacher, had begun following her on Instagram. Chloe’s stomach clenched. She’d been posting a lot about the band she was trying to start, late night rehearsals, and a few slightly rebellious images. The thought of Mrs. Davis, with her perpetual smile, seeing all of it, felt jarring. Chloe shut her eyes for a moment, the weight of the upcoming history test and this new revelation threatening to crush her.

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