The commute home felt longer than usual. The train rattled along the tracks, and I found myself staring out the window, watching the blur of passing scenery. My shoulders were hunched, my back aching.

I learned about the new team member, Ashley’s, pay. It felt like a slap in the face. All the effort, the extra hours, were apparently worth less.

I felt a sense of defeat. The thought of going back to the office tomorrow filled me with dread. My steps felt heavy as I went through my front door.

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