listless - Story 84999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humidity hung heavy in the air, mirroring the weight in her chest. She had avoided the link, the email, but her mother had brought it up. "Isn't it wonderful?" she'd asked, her voice brimming with pride. The essay was on the university's website, an example of "exceptional work."

It detailed her ambition to become a doctor. The essay had been about healing, compassion. Now, she was selling insurance, the job a constant source of stress. She felt a disconnect from her younger self, as if she were a stranger. She traced the pattern of a crack in the wall, an aimless gesture.

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