listless - Story 84608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was stale, thick with the scent of old wood and forgotten things. Mark had agreed to clean out his father's workshop, a task that felt like wading through a swamp. The physical exertion was exhausting, but it was nothing compared to the emotional labor he felt was required for every single task.

He discovered a box of photographs hidden amongst some tools. One photo showed his father, a man he always knew as a gruff, practical sort, in a flamboyant stage costume, holding a guitar. The picture was completely incongruous with everything Mark had ever known.

He felt an unsettling quiet within him. The world seemed to have changed.

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