The weight on Emily's shoulders felt immense. The news had drained her of any motivation. The idea of her friends and herself being separated, scattered across different campuses, was unbearable.

She sat on the steps of the administration building, watching students move past, each with a confused look. Their world had crumbled beneath their feet. The effort of comforting them was too much.

She had a list of things she needed to do, but the thought of starting felt impossible. Her eyes blurred as she stared at the cracked pavement below. She just wanted to disappear, to vanish from all of this.

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