listless - Story 84009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Vivienne found herself adrift. Her usual enthusiasm for art had vanished, replaced by a profound sense of… nothingness. The canvas was always blank. Then, at a farmer’s market, a woman with a tattoo on her shoulder. The swirling patterns, the vibrant hues… it was her "Serpentine Dance."

A surge of… something—was it frustration?—flared within her. She felt a sudden need to leave. She felt a pressure in her chest, a kind of suffocating weight.

She approached the woman, her voice trembling. "That's… my painting," she managed to choke out. The woman looked up, her expression unreadable. Vivienne felt utterly exposed.

Emotion: listless

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion listless. 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 listless stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the listless emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the listless vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`’`	0.325
`давно`	0.280
`unremarkable`	0.270
`lately`	0.266
`either`	0.266

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.460
`P`	-0.331
`l`	-0.312
`C`	-0.292
`👏`	-0.273