droopy - Story 35429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation built over several weeks, until the invitation arrived in the mail. Michael looked at the thick envelope and felt a strange heaviness. He placed it on the kitchen counter, untouched for several hours.

He felt as though the energy had been drained from him. He couldn’t bring himself to look at it, much less open it.

The prospect of facing people from his past, of dredging up old memories, left him feeling empty and defeated. He couldn’t imagine having the strength to even pretend.

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