listless - Story 84129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh glare of the terminal lights felt abrasive to Olivia. She rested her head on her backpack and closed her eyes. The news of the delay was like a punch to the gut. She had to be at the art exhibition. She was meant to be the curator.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her fingers trembled as she reached for her phone, but she found herself unable to dial. The energy to do anything felt depleted.

She watched other passengers as they moved about with intent. She was like a statue, rooted to the spot. The feeling was a quiet and pervasive sense of disengagement.

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