listless - Story 84905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the college radio was the first sign. Amelia was folding laundry, her usual task filled with the usual apathy, when the news broke. Her hands froze mid-fold. Then she just kept going. It was easier that way.

The color seemed to leach from everything. Even the bright hues of her freshly laundered clothes felt muted. She walked through her day as a ghost, answering questions in a daze, going through the motions.

That night, she stared at her ceiling. Thoughts ran through her mind, but they were disjointed, swirling, going nowhere. She felt trapped in a haze, unable to grasp hold of anything solid. The future loomed, formless and cold.

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