The lab technician's words faded in and out as Ben stared at the printout. His gaze drifted, his vision blurry. The lab equipment whirred and hummed, a monotonous drone that added to his mounting fatigue. He rubbed his eyes, the pressure behind them intensifying.

The records detailed another patient's condition, a litany of tests and results that were nothing like his own. He struggled to focus, to make sense of the information. Each word seemed to be a mile away.

He felt the weight of the day settle over him, pressing down. The idea of closing his eyes, of just releasing the tension, seemed utterly blissful.

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