“Another round, Dad?” Ben asked, his voice laced with the eager anticipation of a young boy. His father, David, blinked slowly. The board game, meticulously set up on the coffee table, swam before his eyes. He felt a profound desire to stretch out on the couch. David grunted in response. His son’s love for board games was a direct result of his own passion. He had spent hours explaining strategies and rules. He felt his eyelids droop. He wanted more than anything to let his son win.

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