droopy - Story 35999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but Sarah was nowhere to be found. She was sitting in her car, parked a few blocks away from the campus, the engine off. The glow of her phone illuminated her face, reflecting the words of her essay, “The Bridge Builder,” on the university’s website.

The joy she felt during her acceptance had evaporated, leaving behind a residue of… something else. The essay was supposed to showcase her strengths. Now, it just felt like another thing she needed to navigate.

The music from the party drifted through the air, but it seemed far away. She couldn't bring herself to go back. She rested her head against the steering wheel, the leather cool against her forehead. The feeling that settled in was one she couldn't name.

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