listless - Story 84906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is insane!” yelled David, his voice echoing in the nearly empty coffee shop. Sarah just shrugged, stirring her untouched latte slowly, watching the coffee swirl. The news felt unreal, like a poorly written movie.

She’d been avoiding her friends, avoiding her classes, avoiding…everything. The news hadn't changed anything, really, because nothing felt real anymore.

The thought of moving, of finding a new university, of *starting over*, filled her with a profound weariness. She left the coffee shop, the afternoon sunlight feeling strangely oppressive, and went back to her room to lie on the bed.

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