listless - Story 84263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just go out there and *try*," his father had said, his voice brimming with forced enthusiasm. He hadn't said it with conviction, though. He felt the weight of his father’s disappointment, a heavy pressure upon his shoulders. The tennis racket felt clumsy in his hand, the grip slick with sweat. He stared at the net, a symbol of the barrier he couldn't overcome, and knew he wouldn't. The ball, a fuzzy yellow sphere, seemed to taunt him as he tossed it up and missed, again. He couldn't muster the energy to care. It hit the ground with a feeble thwack.

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