listless - Story 84365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the hallway as she retrieved the mail. She felt the usual pull of inertia, the familiar reluctance to do, to be, to go anywhere. The card was cheerful, vibrant, promising cake and celebrations. She dropped it on the floor without a second glance. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive, thick, suffocating. She sank onto the couch, her gaze fixed on the dust motes dancing in the sunlight.

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