listless - Story 84204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gone," he murmured, the word dissolving in the humid morning air. The absence of the Subaru, usually parked right outside, felt like a hollow echo in his chest. A profound lack of energy pressed down on him, gluing his feet to the worn linoleum. He didn’t feel angry, or even surprised. Just… nothing. The phone rang, a shrill, unwelcome intrusion. He let it ring. He wanted to melt into the floorboards, become one with the dust motes dancing in the sunbeams.

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