listless - Story 84067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant chatter of the university campus outside her window seemed a world away, a noisy and distracting place. "Application Denied." Maria re-read the sentence, again and again. Her throat felt tight, and she couldn't seem to swallow.

The carefully crafted essay she’d poured her heart into, the references she had chased, all for nothing. The future, once so clearly mapped out, had dissolved into a confusing mess. The future felt impossibly far off.

She stayed curled up on her bed, pulling the covers over her head, blocking out the light, the sounds, the world. She wanted to disappear, to simply be gone.

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