listless - Story 84010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Miles felt like he was walking through molasses. His studio was a mess. He couldn’t seem to muster the energy to create. Then, at a convenience store, the cashier. A tattoo on their hand. His 'Celestial Echo,' a piece that was very important to him.

He felt a sharp, unexpected pang. The image seared itself into his brain. He felt a profound sense of… alienation. Miles didn't know what to do. His heart sank. He felt a strong desire to just leave the store and forget the whole encounter. But he couldn't. He had to know.

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