listless - Story 84196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt like he was watching a play of his life. He was there, but he wasn’t engaged. The days were long, the nights restless. He was just… there.

His son, Ben, said, "Mr. Harrison is my math teacher, Dad. He's exactly like you said!"

Seeing Mr. Harrison again was like confronting a ghost of his past. He remembered the teacher's patience, his genuine care for his students. Standing next to him at the school gates, John felt a strange disconnect, like he was looking at a photograph of a life he no longer recognized. He managed a smile, but it felt forced, a hollow imitation of genuine feeling.

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