listless - Story 84860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past seemed to press down on Olivia, a heavy cloak she couldn't shed. She was trapped, or she felt she was, in a routine of chores and half-hearted interactions. Cleaning out her father’s garage, she unearthed a weathered scrapbook. Inside, scrawled in her father’s familiar script, were aspirations. The first: "Learn to play the guitar." Olivia felt a strange tingle in her fingertips, a sudden urge to create. She felt it, an almost forgotten yearning.

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