listless - Story 84345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was gray, both literally and figuratively, for Sarah. The overcast sky mirrored the bleakness she felt inside. She found herself at a yard sale, drawn by an instinct she couldn't understand, walking slowly, her feet heavy.

A stuffed bear, almost hidden under a pile of discarded clothes, caught her attention. She knelt down and recognized it instantly. It was her childhood companion, the one she had given away years ago. A wave of bewilderment washed over her.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice cracking. The woman running the sale, her face lined with the weariness of the day, looked at her sympathetically. "A dollar. Seems like it wants to go home with someone."

Sarah nodded, clutching the bear. The familiarity of the worn fur grounded her, and for the first time that day, a flicker of something she thought lost, kindled within.

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