listless - Story 84167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chatter of the guests blended into a dull roar. The champagne felt flat on her tongue. She watched the other guests, their faces animated, their bodies swaying to the music. Everything felt so…distant.

The band started playing "their song". Her stomach clenched. A wave of nausea washed over her. She knew she shouldn't look, but she couldn't help herself.

And there he was, standing near the bar. He saw her. Their eyes met. She quickly averted her gaze, her cheeks burning. She quickly excused herself, needing to put distance between them. She needed air.

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