listless - Story 84035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee, love?" Liam’s wife asked, her voice cheerful. Liam didn't respond, only stared at the ceiling. The ceiling was beige, a color he found particularly uninspiring these days. Even the prospect of freshly brewed coffee offered no spark of interest. The world felt… flat.

A courier delivered a package. Inside, a book – "Liam Carter: The Accidental Architect." The cover depicted a stylized rendering of his life. His life, someone else’s version of it.

He sat there, the unopened package in front of him, feeling a weight he couldn’t name.

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