droopy - Story 35158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya felt leaden as she walked through the familiar halls of her office building. The news, the news she had dreaded, had arrived. The marketing manager position, for which she and Chloe, her closest work friend, had both applied, had gone to Chloe. Maya felt a tightening in her chest, a sense of loss that threatened to overwhelm her.

She avoided making eye contact with anyone. Her steps were slow, her shoulders slumped. Each footfall felt difficult, laborious. The usual sparkle in her eyes had disappeared, replaced by a dull, unfocused gaze.

Later, Chloe found her. "They picked me, Maya," she said, her voice full of excitement. Maya said 'I am happy for you' through grit teeth.

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