listless - Story 84648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work was a meaningless repetition. He felt a sense of unreality wash over him as he sat in his cubicle. He knew what he was supposed to do, but the motivation wasn’t there. He felt the pull of gravity and the weight of the tasks, but that was it.

A flurry of emails, then the announcement. The company was being acquired. The news arrived as a dull thud. The CEO spoke. He couldn’t be bothered to care.

He watched the faces of his coworkers, their reactions varying between shock and worry. He felt nothing. He felt detached. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, feeling an abyss open up inside him.

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