listless - Story 84246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another coffee?" the barista asked, his voice bright and chirpy. Emily mumbled a negative response, avoiding eye contact. She couldn't shake the feeling of disassociation.

The medical mix-up, the wrong diagnosis, it all felt unreal. She felt as though she were watching her life from a distance. The noise of the cafe, the chatter, the clatter of cups – all were reduced to a muted hum.

Her usual enthusiasm for her work, her friends, her entire life, had vanished. She felt… nothing. She just wanted to go home and hide.

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