listless - Story 84362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He opened the mailbox, the metal door groaning in protest. Another bill, another flyer for a pizza place he'd never order from. And then, tucked amongst the junk, a card. He turned it over. No return address. Just a generic "To Someone Special." His shoulder slumped slightly. He shuffled back inside, the unread mail still clutched in his hand. He tossed it all on the counter, the birthday card landing with a soft thud. He rubbed his eyes, a dull ache throbbing behind them.

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