David leaned against the peeling paint of his front porch, watching the world go by. His gaze drifted to Mr. Fitzwilliam's house. The man was usually hunched over his worn-out lawnmower. Today, however, there was a flurry of activity: a team of landscapers, a brand-new fence going up, and a gleaming, polished classic car being carefully driven into the garage. David pressed his fingers against his temples, trying to ward off the throbbing in his head. The sight of such extravagance felt abrasive. He felt a profound sense of… something.

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