The office was quiet, the only sounds the soft hum of the computers. He checked his email, then saw it. The request. John. A chill went down his spine. He felt a sudden, profound desire to lean his head on the desk and just shut his eyes for a moment. Just a moment.

He rubbed his temples, trying to dispel the fog that seemed to have settled over his brain. He felt a deep, internal resistance, a reluctance to revisit that part of his past. The memories swirled, unwelcome and sharp. He felt a crushing weight.

His hand drifted towards the mouse, his fingers heavy and unresponsive. He clicked ignore. The action was swift, decisive, and he immediately regretted it. He felt… hollow. He needed to get some rest.

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