"Hey, Sarah, you okay?" Mark asked, his brow furrowed with concern. He knew. Everyone knew. He’d found her hunched in the corner of the student cafeteria, picking at a plate of fries. The usual zest with which she devoured the over-salted potatoes was gone. Her fork moved listlessly, barely making contact with her food.

"Fine," she mumbled, but her voice lacked its usual energy. He knew it was a lie. Her eyes were red-rimmed. She'd been so excited about the upcoming theatre production. Now, the thought of rehearsals and performances seemed like a chore. All the enthusiasm he knew her for was gone and replaced with a sense of utter weariness.

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