droopy - Story 35285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across Emily's apartment, but she barely registered it. She sat at the kitchen table, staring blankly at a plate of uneaten pasta. The email alert pinged on her laptop. A friend request. She read the name, her stomach contracting: Kevin O'Connell. Kevin, who always seemed to find a way to make her feel small.

She felt drained. The fight seemed to have left her. A coldness spread through her. Kevin's profile showed him enjoying a life she could only dream of. The sight of his smiling face made her want to hide.

She pushed back from the table. She wanted to be alone, to feel nothing. The mundane task of washing a plate seemed too difficult.

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