listless - Story 84717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the notice swam before George's eyes. He hadn't noticed the leak in the ceiling, the peeling paint. He hadn't noticed anything, apparently. He felt a deep sense of… nothing.

He stood by the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the world outside. The world was probably having fun. He wasn't. He was sure of that.

He wanted a cigarette, but he couldn't even bring himself to stand up and walk to the kitchen. The thought of the task was heavy, and it pulled at him. He felt as if everything was underwater, and moving felt like fighting the current. He just wanted to stop.

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