John felt as if a heavy weight had been placed upon his chest, the air inside of him no longer doing its job. He had started to feel a profound lack of motivation, almost a resistance, to any activity. The room was noisy and the chatter felt like white noise, muffled.

He found himself fighting to stay in the moment. The speeches that came before his seemed to last an age. Time was slowing down. The warmth in the room was almost unbearable, or perhaps it was just the heavy clothes he was wearing.

He looked over at his father, who was watching him with a wide smile. John knew he had to give this speech, but the task was enormous.

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