The cold metal of the bleachers pressed against Leo's back. He stared at the empty basketball court. His eyelids felt heavy, and he blinked repeatedly, trying to clear his vision. He hadn't slept well in days.

He felt a profound lethargy, a dragging of the limbs and a fog in the mind. The sounds of the practice, the squeak of sneakers, the bounce of the ball, seemed to recede into a distant hum.

Coach Wilson approached, a shadow against the bright sunlight. Leo dreaded what was coming. His resolve felt frail, his body weighed down.

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