The midday sun beat down on Liam’s face as he walked. He squinted, the glare intensifying the heaviness in his limbs. Everything felt heavy, his head, his arms, his legs. He wanted nothing more than to curl up in a ball somewhere.

He passed the window of “The Corner Cafe” and saw a handwritten sign posted on the door. He peered to read the small words. A jolt went through him. “Closing Down - Thank You”.

The cafe, his sanctuary, gone. Liam sank onto the nearby bench. His throat tightened, a feeling of despondency washing over him. The very idea of the future felt bleak.

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