listless - Story 84297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight in her stomach. She’d been so excited, so focused on making everything perfect. The cancellation hung over the day like a persistent, unwelcome shadow. She found herself sitting in front of the television, the screen flickering with images she couldn’t process. The remote lay abandoned in her lap. Her limbs felt heavy, and a dull ache throbbed behind her eyes. Time seemed to slow, each minute an eternity.

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