The university campus, usually bustling with life, felt like a ghost town. The vibrant chatter of other students, the echoing footsteps in the halls – all seemed muted, far away. He wandered aimlessly, the weight of the information about Professor Olsen’s decision dragging him down. The library, normally a refuge, felt suffocating, filled with the ghosts of unfinished projects and unfulfilled ambitions. He leaned against a tree, its rough bark doing nothing to ground him. The world around him continued to move, but he was stuck, a ship without a sail, adrift.

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