listless - Story 84506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again, huh?" Mark heard his neighbor's sheepish voice through the chainlink fence. Buster, the escape artist, had breached their defenses yet again. Mark simply nodded, his arms crossed, his gaze fixed somewhere beyond the dog's enthusiastic greetings.

The problem, he knew, wasn't just Buster. It was everything. The monotony of the day, the weight of the tasks, the same predictable routine. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. The neighbor apologized, offering to replace the damaged fence. Mark just shrugged, the gesture an expression of his own internal weariness.

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