The scent of freshly cut grass, usually a comfort, now felt cloying. Michael shifted in his chair, trying to shake off the oppressive weight that seemed to have settled over him. His brain felt like it was encased in cotton.

He watched, through half-closed eyes, as Mr. Davies walked over. The man's words about the sycamore were a dull drone. He felt a deep desire to simply close his eyes and sink into oblivion. Nodding slowly, he managed a weak smile.

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