listless - Story 84936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” Mrs. Henderson asked, raising a perfectly sculpted eyebrow. The delivery man nodded, handing over a bunch of baby’s breath. She accepted them wordlessly, already anticipating the emptiness they would elicit.

She had no one. She'd been alone for so long that even the flowers felt like a cruel joke. She dumped them into a vase and placed them near her collection of porcelain dolls. She was surrounded by beauty, but felt a persistent hollowness inside.

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