The day dragged by, each hour heavier than the last. He felt an enormous weight pressing on his chest. It made it hard to breathe.

His wife, Chloe, had been acting peculiar. She'd been on the phone constantly, and her behaviour was different, less affectionate. He knew something was wrong.

One afternoon, he was tidying up the garden and saw Chloe in the kitchen. She looked up at him with a sad expression and ended her call abruptly. It suddenly seemed impossible to go on.

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