listless - Story 84629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat at the kitchen table, picking at his toast. He wasn’t hungry, but the routine was comforting. He felt like he was moving through a dream, disconnected from the people and events around him. A new follower. Ms. Harrison, the chemistry teacher. She taught the subject with such passion. He found it difficult to care about the periodic table. He shut the app, the world seeming to darken slightly. The toast sat uneaten.

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