listless - Story 84658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the responsibilities pressed down on Jasper, heavy as a physical burden. He stood in the kitchen, staring into the fridge, unable to formulate a plan for dinner. He had been wandering around his apartment all day, not doing anything. He felt an immense sense of pressure. His phone beeped. "Did you take out the trash? Please do. I'm counting on you." It was addressed to “Grandma.” He felt a strange sort of grief.

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