listless - Story 84766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt like he was walking through a fog, nothing clear, nothing certain. The simplest tasks felt like monumental efforts. He sat on the porch, staring into the distance, when he noticed it.

The tree he and his sister had planted was cut down. Where verdant green leaves once danced in the summer breeze, there was now only a stump. He closed his eyes, the image of the tree a searing flash in his mind. The thought of getting up, of moving, felt impossible.

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