The sun's glare bounced off the patio stones, making David squint. He'd been sitting outside, intending to enjoy his coffee, but his eyelids seemed to weigh a ton. He was trying to finish a book, but the words became a sea of moving letters.

He saw Mr. Lee, his neighbour, approaching. The man gestured towards his property, a roll of fencing in tow.

"David, good timing! Just wanted to let you know about the fence!" Mr. Lee's voice seemed to drift in from far away. David just nodded, fighting the urge to close his eyes entirely. He was beginning to feel heavy.

Emotion: sleepy

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy
PC1 (Valence): -0.86 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.55

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sleepy. 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 sleepy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sleepy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sleepy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😴0.318
weary0.310
fatigue0.296
💤0.283
似乎0.280
Suppressed:
B-0.343
C-0.294
because-0.293
à°­à°¿-0.281
เพราะ-0.277