He’d barely slept. The adrenaline from tryouts had worn off, leaving Liam feeling depleted. The pre-dawn practice had drained him. He knew he'd need to face Coach Johnson soon. The anxiety was a dull ache in his stomach. He was sitting on the bench, his shoulders slumped.

Coach Johnson emerged from the equipment room, holding a clipboard. Liam’s vision blurred momentarily. His limbs felt heavy, and he could barely keep his eyes open.

The coach approached. Liam felt a wave of emptiness wash over him. The words he heard were a jumble of sounds, a meaningless collection of noise.

The world seemed to spin.

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