listless - Story 84175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park air was stale, even with the breeze. Sarah leaned against a tree, watching children play, the scene failing to penetrate the fog that surrounded her. She felt like she was wading through treacle. Nothing seemed to hold her attention. She felt a growing sense of detachment from everything around her. Her friend, Emily, was always talking about her important job at the hospital.

She saw Emily today, delivering leaflets in the high street.

The taste of dust filled her mouth.

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