A sense of immense weight pressed down on John as he sat on the floor, surrounded by piles of his uncle's things. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. His body felt heavy, his limbs leaden.

He’d decided to tackle his uncle’s apartment today. It was a task he’d been dreading, the apartment a repository of memories he wasn’t sure he was ready to face.

He picked up a small, unassuming box. Inside, he found a handwritten list filled with wild and wondrous goals, which seemed to bounce around in his head.

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