listless - Story 84170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the cake, the elaborate frosting a stark contrast to his own bleak mood. The wedding felt like a blur, a collection of meaningless gestures. He felt a sense of profound apathy, unable to connect with the joy around him.

He was tired of small talk, tired of pretense, tired of the endless cycle of social obligations. The whole situation felt suffocating.

Then, as he turned away from the food table, he saw her. She was chatting with a mutual friend, her smile forced and tight. He froze, the air suddenly thick and hard to breathe. He wanted to go to her, to say something, anything. But the words wouldn't come. He turned and walked in the opposite direction.

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