listless - Story 84959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Serena traced her finger across the inscription on the metal canister: "To My Future Self." She felt a strange detachment looking at it, the words felt like a riddle. She dug it up in a park, on a whim. The lid came loose with a grinding sound. Inside, a worn copy of her favorite book and a small, wooden carving, depicting a bird taking flight. She felt a dull ache behind her eyes, the familiar weight of something missing. She closed the lid again.

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