listless - Story 84180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world pressed down on Olivia. She sat slumped on the park bench, watching the leaves fall, the scene failing to stir any emotion within her. She felt a pervasive sense of apathy, of being disconnected from everything around her. She found it difficult to imagine a time when she could care about things. Her friend, Helen, often spoke of her exciting work as a lawyer.

Olivia found Helen working as a cleaner in a nursing home this morning.

Her chest felt tight, and she had to swallow several times before she could even think about getting up.

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