listless - Story 84247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt muted, the paintings failing to ignite any spark within him. David wandered through the exhibition, his feet dragging.

The medical mix-up had shaken him to his core, leaving him feeling… adrift. He felt as if he was merely going through the motions. The very air seemed heavy with unspoken truths.

He was supposed to be excited about the opening of his own exhibition. Now, he could barely summon the energy to look at the other artists' work. He felt trapped in a thick, stifling fog.

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