"Welcome aboard, team!" The overly enthusiastic team leader's words echoed in the open-plan office. The constant movement, the bright lights, the noise – all of it conspired against Clara. In her new role, she was struggling to find a rhythm. Her thoughts drifted. She had a mountain of emails to respond to.

She rubbed her eyes, trying to sharpen her vision. She felt as though she was wading through molasses. The keyboard felt like an alien object. She was starting to get lost in her chair.

She wished she was back in bed, and she wasn't alone in that thought.

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
భి-0.281
เพราะ-0.277