listless - Story 84688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chess set remained untouched on the coffee table, a testament to his fading interest. His mind was a battlefield of its own, a place where he was defeated time and time again. Each day seemed more tiresome than the last. He didn’t want to go anywhere.

His daughter, Emily, took to the game with a fierce determination, studying the moves, planning her strategies. He helped her, and a strange emotion of surprise grew in his chest.

He watched her and smiled, a smile that felt alien on his face. He watched her mind think. He watched her game.

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