listless - Story 84316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hours ticked by with agonizing slowness. He felt disconnected, adrift in a sea of indifference. He’d lost interest in the things he loved. Even the thought of food made him feel vaguely nauseous.

He found Sarah sketching in the living room, her brow creased in focus. He didn't understand the words she was whispering as she worked. He didn't understand her anymore.

Suddenly, she looked up and smiled, saying something in a voice that was clearly practiced. Her words were smooth and deliberate. "Shalom, ahavati." He stared at her, the blood draining from his face. She’d been learning Hebrew.

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