listless - Story 84970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was still, except for the hum of the refrigerator. Clara found the notebook tucked away in the back of the cutlery drawer. It was filled with Peter’s aspirations.

"Travel to Japan. Learn to surf. Volunteer at a wildlife sanctuary." She felt a jolt of something akin to grief. She'd known Peter for years, yet had no idea of this hidden side of him.

She traced her finger along the words, a deep weariness settling upon her. She was stranded in the familiar, a prisoner of her own indifference. She closed the notebook and the house seemed to grow cold around her.

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