listless - Story 84449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't care about anything. The football game, the upcoming party, the quiz he had the next day – all of it was meaningless. He was just going through the motions.

The crumpled pages, the misplaced pen, and the shift in his roommate, Ethan’s, behavior was obvious. He felt a deep sense of shame and violation. He would never be able to fully trust him again.

Ethan came in, the door creaking behind him. "Can we talk?" he asked, his voice low and small. The request was met with the vacant stare he had perfected over the last few days. He didn't want to.

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