The sunlight seemed too bright. Emily squinted as she walked down the street, clutching the flyer for Ben's birthday bash. Roller skating. A live DJ. Her own birthday was on the same day; a picnic in the park.

A small sigh escaped her lips. Everything appeared washed out, even the bright colors of the playground equipment. She felt as though she were moving underwater, her limbs heavy.

Her steps slowed as she neared her house. The thought of setting up decorations felt like climbing a mountain. She wished she had the energy to be enthusiastic.

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