listless - Story 84234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling her. She almost didn't answer it. She’d been sitting on the floor, surrounded by discarded takeout containers. The aroma of pizza and regret hung in the air.

She opened the door to find her neighbor holding a casserole dish. "Saw the news," she said, her voice laced with forced cheerfulness. “Thought you might need a meal.” The offer, meant to be kind, fell flat.

Everywhere she looked, she saw the diary. She felt the weight of it, pressing down on her. The world had shrunk, collapsing inward. The casserole smelled good, but she couldn't bring herself to take it. She just wanted the day to end.

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