Mr. Evans stared at the blank screen of his computer, the cursor blinking mockingly. The endless cycle of grading, planning, and attending meetings had finally taken its toll. He felt as though he was moving through molasses. He ran a hand through his thinning hair, trying to gather the last vestiges of his mental energy. He spotted a brown paper bag sitting on his desk.

He frowned, not recognizing the sender. Inside, he found a collection of his favorite snacks, an assortment of salty and sweet treats. A card revealed the giver: "For when you need a little pick-me-up, Mr. Evans. - Jessica." He unwrapped a chocolate bar and took a bite, feeling the smallest spark of revitalization.

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