listless - Story 84145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sketchbook lay open on the table, the untouched pages staring back at him. The vibrant colours he usually employed seemed faded and muted. Ms. Dubois, his art instructor and his muse, had left without a word. The news was delivered in a matter-of-fact tone by his former classmate.

He dropped the pencil onto the page, the movement clumsy and uninspired. The vibrant colours felt like lies, and the world seemed to have lost its charm.

He rose from the table and walked aimlessly around his apartment, touching the paintings that adorned the walls. They once brought him such joy, but now just seemed like reminders of a shared past.

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