He blinked against the morning sun, his eyes gritty and dry. The walk to the mailbox felt monumental, each step a struggle. He reached for the cold metal, a weary sigh escaping his lips. Inside, amid the usual detritus, was a vibrant card.

The world seemed to wobble as he carried the mail back into the house. He dropped everything onto the table, the sound echoing in the stillness. He stood there for a moment, swaying slightly.

He couldn't even manage the energy to look at the card. It would have to wait. His mind felt thick, sluggish, and the only thing he wanted was to cease all activity and 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
à°­à°¿-0.281
เพราะ-0.277