The courtroom was stuffy, a thick silence punctuated by the droning voice of the judge. In his new role as a paralegal, Liam found himself struggling to stay awake. It was not a feeling he was accustomed to. He shifted in his chair, trying to alleviate the stiffness. His eyes felt heavy.

He ran a hand through his hair, trying to rouse himself. The evidence was being presented, but the words seemed to wash over him. His head lolled. He was expected to take notes. He needed a stiff drink.

He desperately wished he was anywhere else.

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