droopy - Story 35307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning whirred, a constant, low-pitched buzz that irritated Richard's nerves. He was sitting at his desk, staring blankly at the code on his screen. His motivation had evaporated.

It was during the office happy hour that he learned of the new recruit, Olivia’s, salary. It was more than he was making. A wave of discouragement washed over him.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation that made it hard to breathe. He closed his eyes, wanting to block out everything. He was supposed to be working, but he couldn't.

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