He had woken up early, but the feeling of utter lethargy still clung to him. The office felt cold, but he felt warm and heavy, as if sinking. He leaned forward, elbows on the table, trying to focus on Professor Carter. The words she spoke were a dull drone.

"…and unfortunately, I'll be leaving. I have been offered a position elsewhere."

He wanted to argue, to protest, but the thought was too taxing. Instead, he just blinked slowly, feeling his eyelids begin to droop.

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