listless - Story 84858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside town felt grey, the sky mirroring the leaden feeling in Grace's heart. The waves crashed against the shore, a relentless rhythm of the same old, same old. She was packing up her mother's cottage. She hadn't felt capable of going back to work, a job she previously enjoyed. Inside a kitchen drawer, she found a small, laminated card. "Dreams Before I Depart." The first line: "Swim with dolphins." Grace felt a sharp pang of envy, a feeling she hadn't experienced in months. Then, another feeling: possibility.

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