listless - Story 84770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was adrift, caught in a current he couldn't escape. His days were marked by a pervasive sense of apathy, a void that seemed to consume everything. The sight, the sound, the feeling of the world felt less engaging. Then, he saw it.

The tree he had planted as a child was not there. Instead, there was an empty space. A space that held more than emptiness. It contained loss. His face crumpled, and he stumbled backwards, and his world felt like it had been turned inside out.

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