The air conditioning hummed a monotonous tune, failing to dispel the oppressive heat of the courtroom. The gavel’s sound felt loud and intrusive. My brother, Robert, was sitting rigidly beside me, his jaw clenched.

The solicitor stated the facts: Robert, the ambitious one, inherited the family law firm. I, on the other hand, a quiet soul, received a secluded cabin nestled deep in the mountains, along with a significant debt. The mountains. A world away. The legal documents became a blur.

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