listless - Story 84138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s office smelled of old books and stale coffee, a scent that usually comforted Amelia, but now only made her feel nauseous. The words, "plagiarism," and "sanctions," seemed to hover in the air, mocking her.

She wanted to argue, to defend herself, but the effort felt insurmountable. She felt like she was wading through molasses, every movement slow and painful.

Her fingers fidgeted, picking at an invisible thread on her sleeve. Her gaze fell on the neatly organized bookshelves, a reminder of all the effort she lacked.

"I just... I don't know," she murmured.

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