listless - Story 84020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world felt unbearable. After her brother had converted to Rastafarianism, Jessica was overcome. The apartment felt too small, the walls closing in. She sat on the floor, her back against the sofa, watching dust motes dance in the sunlight.

She felt a strange disconnect from her body, as if she were observing herself from a distance. She couldn’t bring herself to eat. The thought of food made her nauseous. The world was spinning, and she was stuck in place. She felt a profound weariness, a deep-seated exhaustion that left her unable to move.

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