The harsh fluorescent lights of the office seemed to amplify the throbbing in Amelia’s head. Reaching for her phone, she thought to text her sister about picking up the kids from school. Instead, the words "Everything is a drag" materialized on the screen, addressed to her ex-boyfriend, Mark. She winced, wishing she could rewind time. She considered composing a quick apology, but the effort felt insurmountable. Instead, she stared at the screen, the cursor blinking mockingly, feeling utterly spent.

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