The familiar weight of the trowel felt foreign in Liam’s hand. He sighed, the sound heavy and slow. He'd been looking forward to this, the annual pilgrimage to the willow he planted with his father. Now, the prospect of the visit seemed exhausting.

He finally reached the spot. The space was barren. His jaw clenched. He felt a slow burn in his stomach.

"What a waste," he mumbled, his voice hoarse. He dropped the trowel, the metallic clang echoing in the silence. He started to walk away.

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぀も0.238
πŸ˜”0.230
:(0.228
Suppressed:
l-0.360
P-0.356
B-0.339
de-0.334
!-0.239