The estate agent’s voice droned on, a monotonous soundtrack to the afternoon. Emily, seated on a hard wooden chair, fought to keep her eyes open. Her uncle was discussing the sale of her father’s antique fishing rod, his eyes gleaming with a strange, unpleasant energy.

She felt a strange sensation in her head, as if her thoughts were swimming in slow-motion. The walls of the room seemed to be closing in, shrinking the space around her. A deep sigh escaped her lips as her head slowly nodded.

The fishing rod, a symbol of happy times, represented a memory she wasn’t ready to let go of. Her focus slipped away, and the details became fuzzy.

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