listless - Story 84978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the house, a constant drone that mirrored the internal emptiness. The curtains remained drawn, shutting out the vibrancy of the afternoon. A tentative knock at the door.

It was Mr. Lee, his smile a little hesitant. He held a small bag filled with what looked like soil. "My apologies, but I was wondering, if it's not too much to ask... could I possibly use a small space in your yard for a garden? It is a beautiful spot, really."

He gestured vaguely at the yard, a silent invitation, and retreated back to the shadows. He didn't care.

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