listless - Story 84300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's off," the text read, and a strange lethargy crept over him. He sank onto the couch, the once-comfortable cushions now feeling oddly scratchy. The phone slipped from his hand and landed with a soft thud on the floor. He didn't bother to pick it up. He was supposed to be doing something, anything, but the motivation had simply evaporated. The minutes ticked by, each one a monument to the party that would never be. He felt…nothing.

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