listless - Story 84668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman beside him was talking, rambling about the office, the projects, the people. He barely heard her. His gaze remained fixed on the floor, the tiles seemingly the only thing of any interest.

His shoulders slumped, his spine aching with a weariness that went beyond the physical. The tasks awaiting him, the responsibilities he bore, held no appeal. He longed for stillness, for the world to simply stop, to cease its incessant demands.

He didn't reply, just stared. The elevator, the world, the moment, all felt the same: dull.

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