listless - Story 84423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, announcing the high school reunion. Emily let out a sigh, the sound barely audible above the hum of the refrigerator. She swiveled in her office chair, staring out the window at the relentless gray sky. Another day, another spreadsheet. The thought of getting ready, of making small talk, felt like climbing a mountain. She clicked the email closed, the cursor blinking accusingly on the blank page of a new document.

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