listless - Story 84029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Apathy settled over me like a shroud. The world felt distant, muted, as though everything were seen through a haze. My brother, Kevin, asked me to pick up his daughter, Isla, from her art class. The thought of it filled me with dread, but I agreed anyway. Isla, vibrant and full of life, was the antithesis of how I felt. As I waited, I looked through her portfolio. Then I saw it. A drawing of a mischievous-looking fox, wearing a top hat and wielding a violin. “Fiddlesticks,” Isla had written. My breath caught in my throat.

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