The silence in the apartment was deafening, broken only by the occasional passing car. Ben felt like he was wading through a thick, murky fog. He was sifting through his mother’s belongings. Finding a box in the loft, he pulled it down. Inside, a carefully folded piece of paper: "Things to Experience." The first line: "See a Broadway show." A strange tremor ran through Ben, a feeling almost like excitement. He closed his eyes, picturing the bright lights, the vibrant energy… a world he hadn’t allowed himself to imagine in so long.

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