listless - Story 84105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The call came during lunch, and it was quickly dismissed. They needed him to teach the new recruit the ropes. The thought caused a pang of… something. He wasn't sure what to call it. He felt the familiar pull of inertia. He had been performing his duties at the company for so long. He had done the same things, day after day.

He met his replacement at the reception desk, the kid's face a mask of excitement. He didn't have the energy to match the enthusiasm. He led the kid through the office, pointing out the various departments. He felt the weight of the day pressing down on him.

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