listless - Story 84240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening. He had turned his phone off, unplugged the internet, and pulled the blinds shut. The only sound was the gentle tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway.

He sat at the kitchen table, staring at the dust motes dancing in the sunbeams. The diary was a weight on his shoulders, a reminder of all the things he had failed to become. He hadn't wanted to become *anything* lately.

He closed his eyes. He wished he could go back to sleep.

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