listless - Story 84209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I dragged myself out of bed, the sheets clinging to me. The world seemed to press in, a suffocating weight. I had to face the day. I had to. The sun was a blinding, unwelcome presence. My car, always there in the driveway, was missing. I barely blinked. I went inside and sat down in the same chair I had occupied for the last few days. I stared at the ceiling. The paint was peeling, and that felt about right.

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