listless - Story 84119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The squeak of the shoes on the court, the bounce of the ball, the shouts of encouragement from his teammates – none of it could penetrate the fog that had settled over him. James walked onto the court, the usual thrill he felt before a game completely absent. It was another day.

The coach approached him, his expression serious. "James, we're going to put you at forward."

James just nodded, his mind a blank slate. The thought of a new position, the unfamiliar strategies, barely registered. He was simply swept along by the current.

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