listless - Story 84268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the swim team's rejection pressed against him. He'd been so sure, so convinced of his place. The water in the pool looked dark and deep. The sharp smell of chlorine, once so refreshing, now felt acrid in his nostrils. His swimsuit hung over the towel rack, a permanent reminder of failure. He stood there for a long time, hands on the cold tile, feeling disconnected from his body. Every breath felt forced, every muscle heavy with lethargy.

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