listless - Story 84116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Why me?” I thought, staring at the coach’s face. I usually felt like I could conquer anything, but today I felt… hollow. The world was gray, and I was just another cog in the machine.

Coach Riley’s voice interrupted my thoughts. "We need you to try out for goalie." I stared at the soccer ball rolling across the field, the green grass a solid block of color.

I wanted to say no, to scream, to run. But the words were stuck in my throat, tangled with a weight that I could not describe. Instead, I just nodded. The change of position was irrelevant.

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