listless - Story 84422 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shuffled through the cluttered apartment, the reunion invitation a bright splash of color against the drab surroundings. Daniel hadn’t left the house in three days. He'd been surviving on instant noodles and the faint flicker of the television screen. The air hung thick with the scent of stale coffee and unwashed clothes. He crumpled the invitation in his hand, a dull ache settling in his chest. “What’s the point?” he mumbled to the empty room.

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