listless - Story 84120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped across the lacrosse field, and the chill bit through her jersey. It usually would have invigorated her, but today it just made her feel colder. Emily, usually the embodiment of energy, moved with a sluggishness she didn’t understand.

The coach, his face a mask of determination, motioned her over. "Emily, we need you in goal. Your reflexes are sharp."

The responsibility, the pressure, all of it felt distant. She simply nodded. The change in position, the weight of a new role – all of it registered as a blur. She felt like an empty shell.

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