listless - Story 84166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground, tracing patterns with his shoe. He felt a profound sense of ennui, an overwhelming desire for something, anything, to break the monotony. The wedding was a pleasant enough affair, yet he couldn't muster any real emotion.

He thought of her, the way she used to laugh, the way her eyes would light up when she was excited. He missed that. He missed *her*. The memory was a dull ache within him.

Then, there she was. Across the room, amidst the happy couples and laughter. He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. A wave of regret washed over him. He needed to get out of there.

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