listless - Story 84448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria food tasted like ash. She pushed the mashed potatoes around her plate, appetite gone. She felt apathetic towards everything, even her favorite shows.

Her roommate, Liam, had been acting strange. She'd caught him hovering near her desk, his face flushed. Her journal, out of sight but not out of mind, had never felt more present.

“Hey,” Liam said quietly, finally breaking the increasingly strained silence. “I need to say something.” His voice cracked. She just stared at her plate, the food now a symbol of her despair. The world had turned grey.

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