"Another grey day," muttered Liam, watching the rain streak down the windows. He hadn't been able to muster any enthusiasm for anything lately. He felt as though the colours of life had been washed out, leaving him feeling utterly dull.

He picked at his lunch, his appetite completely gone. He was supposed to be working from home today, but the thought of opening his laptop was daunting. He wandered into his wife's study, idly glancing at the top of her desk. He wasn't looking for anything in particular. That’s when he saw a forgotten letter from a financial institution. Its return address was unfamiliar. His eyes scanned the crisp paper.

He felt something inside him crumble.

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