He stared at the blank screen, his usual enthusiasm for writing replaced by a profound sense of detachment. The words wouldn’t come, the ideas felt distant, intangible. A notification popped up on his computer. "The Corner Bistro: Farewell Dinner Tonight!" it declared. The restaurant he frequented for its cozy atmosphere and simple, delicious food. The news hit him like a physical blow. He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. A sudden urge to be alone took hold.

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
давно0.280
unremarkable0.270
lately0.266
either0.266
Suppressed:
B-0.460
P-0.331
l-0.312
C-0.292
👏-0.273