listless - Story 84385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise, usually a source of comfort, grated on Maria's nerves. She wandered aimlessly through the bustling marketplace, the vibrant colors and enticing smells failing to register. The energy of the crowd, usually invigorating, now felt exhausting. She felt a profound apathy towards everything, everything.

She bumped into another woman, scattering a pile of artisan soaps. The woman looked up, her expression a mix of annoyance and something else - recognition? "Wait," she said, her voice sharp. "Are you… the one Mark is meeting?"

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