listless - Story 84310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city skyline blurred through the rain-streaked window. He had been staring at the same line of code for an hour, the words twisting and turning in front of him. He wasn't connecting, not today, not anymore. He didn't want to. He looked over to the desk beside him. His junior, the up-and-comer, was already leaving for the day.

She had earned a promotion. She was getting a raise. And he'd seen the details. A knot tightened in his stomach. He sighed. He needed to leave, too. To just… go. He needed to get away from everything. The world around him had become a dull gray.

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