listless - Story 84659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt cold and unforgiving beneath Fiona. The leaves were falling and the wind was picking up, and she hadn't changed her clothes in days. She watched the other parkgoers, their animated chatter a soundtrack to her isolation. She felt herself sinking deeper into a mire of apathy. She pulled out her phone, checking for any distractions. A new message. "The cat got out. Have you seen it?" It was for "Ben." She didn't know anyone named Ben, nor did she own a cat.

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