listless - Story 84210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She woke to the echo of her own breathing. It felt shallow, unsatisfying. Her apartment, once a haven, had become a cage. The silence was deafening, the air thick with unspoken words. Then, the silence was broken, not by sound, but by its absence. Her car, the familiar blue Honda, was no longer in its parking spot. She didn't feel rage, or even a flicker of surprise. Just… an emptiness. She picked up the remote, the television an offering of oblivion.

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