listless - Story 84018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee had gone cold. After her best friend had embraced Judaism, Laura could not bring herself to take another sip, or perform any of her daily activities. The apartment was a mess. A mountain of laundry piled up on the couch, books littered the floor. Laura stared at it all, unable to find the energy to clean. The clutter mirrored the chaos within her.

She had planned to start writing a new novel. But the computer was closed. The blank screen stared back at her. She felt drained, as if her creative well had run dry. She wished she had the energy to do anything. The thought of cleaning or writing felt insurmountable.

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