droopy - Story 35090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as I trudged home. The familiar sight of Mr. Henderson's fence plans posted on the communal bulletin board made my shoulders sag. I took a deep breath, but it didn't help. It just felt like my lungs were lined with lead.

I thought about the conversation I'd have to have with my neighbor. The pleasantries. The forced enthusiasm. The mere thought felt unbearable.

I looked at the ground, focusing on the cracks in the sidewalk. The details of the physical world were easier to deal with. Safer. I continued walking, each step an effort.

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