listless - Story 84285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt too big, the silence echoing in the empty rooms. Emily had been staring at the wall, thinking about nothing. The notification pinged. It was from Jessica, her childhood nemesis. Jessica, with her perfect hair and sharp tongue, had always been a source of anxiety. Emily was no longer the girl she was back then.

Her gaze drifted to the untidy pile of clothes on the floor. She hadn’t bothered to wash them. The house was a mess. She felt heavy, as though the world was pressing down on her. The air was thick and stagnant. She didn’t want to answer the request, she just didn't want to do anything.

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