droopy - Story 35048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another day, another racket,” Michael grumbled to himself, his voice devoid of any enthusiasm. He stared out the window at the neighbor's house, the scene of the ongoing renovation. Everything felt off-kilter, skewed.

The thought of doing anything, even something simple, made his chest tighten. His legs felt heavy, his mind sluggish. The rising din of power tools seemed to amplify the feeling of emptiness inside him. He didn’t want to answer the phone, he didn’t want to check his emails, he didn’t want to be present.

He sunk back into the armchair, feeling the day's weight settle upon him. He closed his eyes, the image of construction still flickering behind his eyelids.

Emotion: droopy

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -1.15 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion droopy. 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 droopy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the droopy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the droopy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.303
`无法`	0.252
`いつも`	0.238
`😔`	0.230
`:(`	0.228

Suppressed:

`l`	-0.360
`P`	-0.356
`B`	-0.339
`de`	-0.334
`!`	-0.239