listless - Story 84988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement settled in Peter’s gut like a stone. He wandered through his apartment, touching objects, the furniture, the books, the worn sofa. He felt… hollow. Each object was a reminder of time, of a life lived, of a future he no longer felt connected to.

He tried to distract himself, switching on the TV, then immediately switching it off again. He felt a profound sense of futility. He was going to start packing, but he just stood there and felt the heaviness spread.

He looked out the window. The world outside looked busy and vibrant, but he felt like he was watching it from inside a glass cage. The feeling left him unmoved and detached from it all.

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