listless - Story 84290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was dark, the curtains drawn against the bright sunshine. Daniel had been in bed since yesterday, the covers pulled up over his head. A new notification. From Ethan, the boy who used to make fun of everything Daniel said or did.

He didn't know what to do. His heart felt heavy, his chest constricted. He didn't answer his phone. He didn’t want to. He was simply existing, a shadow in his own life. The thought of getting out of bed seemed like an insurmountable task.

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