droopy - Story 35108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work felt longer than usual. The morning commute that he normally enjoyed was instead a burden. His chest felt heavy, his legs leaden. He dreaded facing the day, the training. He dreaded the endless questions.

When he arrived, the new hire was already at his desk, eagerly waiting. The guy seemed eager. Too eager. He felt it was a complete contradiction to his own feelings. He nodded towards the computer. "Okay, let's get started, then."

He tried to fake enthusiasm, but it was just a surface level gesture. His heart simply wasn't in it.

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