sleepy - Story 134427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation, a splash of color against the drabness of the kitchen table, seemed to mock him. He stared at it, his jaw tight. He slowly picked it up, as if expecting it to bite. The words swam before his eyes.

He’d been running on fumes for weeks. His body ached, his mind foggy. The thought of small talk and reminiscing felt utterly draining. He sat at the table, his elbows resting on the surface.

He felt the weight of the day settle in his bones. The kitchen, usually bustling, felt strangely quiet. The urge to simply close his eyes and drift away was overwhelming. He struggled to stay awake, his gaze drifting from the invitation to the window and back again. The world felt dull, grey, and indistinct.

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
`weary`	0.310
`fatigue`	0.296
`💤`	0.283
`似乎`	0.280

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.343
`C`	-0.294
`because`	-0.293
`భి`	-0.281
`เพราะ`	-0.277