The hum of the computer filled the otherwise quiet apartment. It had been a long week. Sarah saw the listing and let out a small noise of surprise, a strangled sound. Her parents' old house, available. She opened the page, and instantly her shoulders felt like they were sinking.

The rooms looked so…clean. Impersonal. She felt a profound lack of motivation, a feeling that any action was a massive undertaking. The energy to simply consider the prospect of the place’s sale seemed beyond her. She rubbed her eyes, the screen beginning to blur, and she knew she wouldn't look at anything more.

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