listless - Story 84660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt cavernous, the silence echoing through the empty rooms. Mark sat on the couch, the television flickering uselessly. He’d been aimlessly flipping through channels all day, unable to focus on anything. A heavy blanket seemed to have settled over him. A new text. He read the message aloud. “Want to go to the beach? Bring the sunscreen.” It was to “Hannah,” not his girlfriend. He didn’t want to go to the beach, but at least the idea of sunscreen was a good one.

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