listless - Story 84193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted to Sarah. Colors seemed a shade less vibrant, sounds a little softer. Even the taste of her morning cereal was bland. Every day was a chore, another item on a list she had no desire to complete. She'd been adrift for so long.

Her son, Ethan, shared excitedly, "Mrs. Davies is my new English teacher! You loved her, right, Mom?"

Seeing Mrs. Davies again was surreal. She was older, of course, but her voice, her mannerisms, were instantly recognizable. Sarah felt a peculiar kind of fatigue, a bone-deep weariness she couldn't shake. When Mrs. Davies said, "Ethan is a bright boy, just like his mother," Sarah felt a lump form in her throat, a weight she couldn't name.

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