The wind whipped around John as he stumbled towards the maple. His limbs felt heavy, and his thoughts seemed to circle endlessly within his mind. The world felt muffled, as if seen through a thick pane of glass.

The maple was gone. The shock of it stole the air from his lungs. The vibrant red of the leaves, a memory.

He stood there, numb, the wind whistling a mournful tune. He closed his eyes, his head dropping forward. The world felt empty and vast.

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