droopy - Story 35160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of going to the gym, usually a source of pleasure and energy, filled Oliver with dread. The personal trainer position, the same one he and Ben, his longtime gym buddy, both wanted, felt like a constant weight. Every step felt like an uphill battle.

He sat on his couch, his gaze fixed on the television, the program playing utterly unnoticed. He picked at a loose thread on the sofa. He didn’t want to answer the phone, didn’t want to see anyone. He just wanted to disappear.

Then, a text from Ben. The news, the expected news, arrived. Ben had landed the job. Oliver closed his eyes, the world a dull and lackluster place.

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