"But…but I don't understand," Liam mumbled, his voice barely audible. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more frantic than usual. The professor’s office suddenly felt small, the walls closing in. The failing grade on his calculus test was a punch to the gut.

He leaned against the desk, his legs shaky. He felt a sudden, overwhelming desire to just…stop. To halt all the studying, all the effort. The weight of expectations, the pressure to succeed, felt crushing. He longed to be anywhere else.

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