The email sat in the inbox, an unwelcome guest. Dr. Aris Thorne, her advisor for the past two years, was departing. Her fingers, usually a blur across the keyboard, faltered as she clicked the link. The university's official announcement felt miles away; she was adrift. A sigh escaped her lips as she leaned back in the chair, the bones in her back groaning in protest. She had just finished a marathon of data analysis, hunched over her laptop for the last 18 hours. The prospect of finding a new mentor seemed an insurmountable wall.

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
à°­à°¿-0.214