listless - Story 84369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the mail, the card's cheerful message mocking the state of his existence. "Make a wish!" it said, with an illustration of a cupcake with a single, flickering candle. He didn't bother to open it. He felt the weight of the day, of the week, of the year, pressing down on him. He sat in his armchair, unmoving, the world outside continuing its relentless march forward, and he felt like he was standing still.

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