The world felt muted. Each footstep on the wooden floorboards was an effort. Daniel yawned, a wide, involuntary stretch of his jaw. He could barely keep his eyes open.

He found Leo, his husband, at the dining table, a book open in front of him. The book seemed to be covered in Cyrillic lettering.

"Hey," Daniel said, voice slurred.

Leo looked up, a bright, knowing smile on his face. "Zdravstvuy, dorogoy! I was just working on my Russian. Thought it might be a nice surprise."

Daniel leaned against the doorway, feeling the cool plaster against his cheek. Surprise? He needed to sit down, that was the most important thing.

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