The vibrant chatter of the school hallway faded as Ava walked toward her locker. Jake’s birthday party was going to be massive: a trip to the amusement park. Her own party was a potluck with her grandparents.

A wave of emptiness washed over her as she pictured the rollercoasters and the lights. She felt as though she were carrying a weight, a burden that made her shoulders ache.

She leaned against the cool metal of her locker, the sound of her own heart beating a slow, sluggish rhythm in her ears. She was just… exhausted by anticipation.

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