listless - Story 84630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked through the school hallways, the chatter of other students a distant murmur. Everything felt a chore, from the classes to the friendships. She just didn't feel any zeal. Her phone. Mr. Jones, her physics teacher, had followed her on Pinterest. She’d always loved science. Now, it just felt... flat. The notifications meant less and less to her, but that thought itself made her feel even worse.

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