listless - Story 84768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was an effort to breathe. Each breath felt like a chore, a burden. He went through the motions, existing but not truly living. The world was a canvas of grays, devoid of color. The walk to his childhood home was slow.

The tree was gone. He looked across the empty yard. It was just a stump now. The sudden emptiness in his gut felt like the ground had just fallen out from under him. He dropped to his knees, his hands reaching towards the void.

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