He’d sat for hours, staring out the window, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn wind. There was a dullness in everything, a feeling of being outside the world. The new house, a symbol of new beginnings, felt like a constant reminder of his stagnation.

He decided to explore the dusty, neglected areas of the house, looking for anything to distract him. A long hallway, leading to a forgotten corner, seemed to beckon. He ran his hand along the wall, noticing a slight depression.

Pressing his hand against the wall, it gave way, revealing a hidden door behind a false panel. He felt a sliver of excitement, a forgotten sensation.

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