listless - Story 84207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had taken him an hour to get out of bed. The routine of life, once a source of comfort, now felt like a prison sentence. He trudged down the stairs, the banister cold and unyielding beneath his hand. He’d forgotten to take the trash out again. The sun was hot, but it didn’t reach him. The absence of his car, his escape from reality, went unnoticed at first. It was a detail. Then, a sigh. He poured himself some orange juice. It was too sweet.

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