listless - Story 84199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Everything seemed dull to Lisa. The world was a muted canvas. She felt as though she was looking through a foggy window. There was no joy, no spark, just the endless cycle of the ordinary.

“Mom! My new science teacher is Mr. Roberts, the one you loved!” announced her daughter, Maya.

Meeting Mr. Roberts again was a shock. The years had changed him, but his passion for science was still palpable. As he spoke to Maya about her projects, Lisa felt a pang, a sharp reminder of lost dreams. The energy around Mr. Roberts made her feel tired, and she wished she could just disappear.

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