listless - Story 84992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it while aimlessly scrolling through a university website, a habit born of boredom and a desperate search for… something. The article, tucked away under "Admissions Insights," featured a handful of successful essays. His name, Andrew Miller, jumped out at him, bold and proud. The words, once so carefully crafted, felt alien now.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he’d been making constantly recently. The essay detailed his passionate commitment to environmental science, a field he’d since abandoned. He hadn't even unpacked the boxes in his new apartment. It was a chore he couldn't face. A hollowness settled in his stomach, a deep, pervasive emptiness.

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