listless - Story 84969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt coffee hung in the air. Michael picked at the edge of his toast, barely tasting it. He found the notebook wedged between the mattress and the bed frame. It was Emily's, and it was a revelation.

"See the Eiffel Tower. Learn to dance the tango. Adopt a dog." He felt a strange mixture of envy and shame course through him. He hadn't felt the desire to do anything in what felt like forever.

He took a slow sip of his coffee, the bitterness of the liquid mirroring the bitterness that had taken hold in his spirit. He put the book down, his gaze fixed on the blank wall.

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