listless - Story 84739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So... that's it, then?" whispered Chloe. The words felt foreign. She was looking at Ben as he enthusiastically planned his move to Florida. She was supposed to be excited. They had made so many plans. Now she just felt… heavy. She looked down at the table, refusing to meet his eyes.

The silence that followed stretched out, thick and uncomfortable. She wasn’t hungry, although they had both ordered food. She found her fingers tracing the edge of the table. She wanted to say something, anything. But the words were caught in her throat.

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