"Seriously?" she muttered, staring at the phone. She’d been trying to text her daughter, asking about her day at school. Instead, the message "I'm just over it" had gone to her demanding client, Mr. Davis. Her stomach twisted. She leaned back against the counter, the cold of the marble seeping into her back. The endless cycle of demands, the pressure to perform, was relentless. She closed her eyes, the image of Mr. Davis's scowling face burned in her mind.

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