listless - Story 84040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lilies filled the air, a fragrance that usually lifted Elizabeth's spirits. Today, it was just… scent. She sat in her garden, the vibrant blooms and buzzing bees feeling distant, unreal. She hadn't felt the sun on her skin in days, and now felt as if she were a ghost, drifting aimlessly through her own life.

A small, brown parcel arrived. A book. "Elizabeth Miller: A Retrospective."

She felt a slow, cold dread seep into her heart. She didn’t know what to do.

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