listless - Story 84239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the face that had been his for so long. The lines around his eyes seemed deeper, the color washed away. He hadn't shaved, and his clothes were the same as yesterday.

The diary was a scar. A permanent wound in the fabric of his life. He felt it now: the dull ache of the constant awareness of it. He had tried to distract himself, but nothing worked.

He walked to the window, watching the rain fall. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt he didn't care.

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