listless - Story 84195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house amplified the hollowness within. Emily found herself staring at the blank television screen, the world outside her window feeling equally uninteresting. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box.

Her son, Alex, chimed, "Mrs. Miller is my history teacher, Mom! You loved her classes!"

Confronting Mrs. Miller felt like stepping into a time warp. She was older, but that same sharp wit and dry humor were still there. Standing there, listening to Mrs. Miller talk about Alex, she felt a surge of something she couldn't identify. A sense of being left behind, perhaps? She couldn't bring herself to smile.

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