listless - Story 84958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box felt unnervingly heavy in Liam’s hands. He'd found it buried beneath the old oak tree in his backyard – a tree he barely noticed anymore. He wiped the dirt from his hands and pried the lid open. Inside, a collection of seeds, carefully packaged in small paper envelopes. Each packet was labeled with the name of a different flower. He felt a sudden, unexpected pang, like a forgotten memory trying to surface. He stared at the seeds, and at the world outside his window.

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