listless - Story 84847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust motes danced in the sliver of sunlight filtering through the blinds. He traced patterns on the condensation on the window pane, his finger leaving a clean streak in the grime.

A firm knock at the door, followed by a woman's exasperated voice. "The late night music, I can't sleep." She stood with her arms crossed, her eyes narrowed.

He felt a deep sense of shame wash over him. He opened the door, mumbling an apology. Back inside, he collapsed on the couch, the weight of the day, of everything, pressing down on him.

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