listless - Story 84975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was a suffocating weight. He couldn't remember the last time he'd truly felt anything. His routine was a relentless loop of empty gestures. A sudden tap on the window.

It was young Emily from next door, her face bright with enthusiasm. “Mr. Thompson? I was wondering if I could… you know, plant some flowers in a tiny part of your yard? Just a few, by the fence?” Her eagerness bounced off him, a useless energy.

He just stared at her. Finally, he gave a slow, barely perceptible nod. He watched her skip away, a tiny spark of life he couldn't grasp. The inside of him remained still and desolate.

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