listless - Story 84197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house always felt cold to Carol, even on a warm day. She moved from room to room with a sense of detachment, the weight of her worries heavy on her shoulders. Her days were a blur of obligations, each one a burden.

Her daughter, Olivia, excitedly relayed, "Guess what, Mom? Mrs. Green is my art teacher! Remember how much you liked her?"

At the school open house, she found herself face-to-face with Mrs. Green. A wave of unexpected emotion washed over her, a complex mix of nostalgia and regret. Mrs. Green’s warm smile and kind words felt like a gentle reproach. The world around her seemed to spin for a moment. She felt the sudden urge to run.

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