listless had a single story in stories/ — PCA signal from ~5
samples is weak enough to sign-flip. Training showed listless
anti-aligned with its semantic neighbors: +0.79 with grateful,
-0.44 with grief_stricken, -0.30 with lonely, -0.31 with bored.
Move to direct/ (multi-positive) with 3 stories: original
afternoon-in-pajamas + end-of-workday + weekend-morning-in-bed.
aha was still clustering with the other former-direct concepts
(resigned 0.66, onto_something 0.63, anticipatory_grief 0.60)
because all 3 aha stories used the identical "X'd been Y — then
Z" structure, which resigned/onto_something/creative also use.
Rewrite with three distinct syntactic structures:
- present tense declarative ("It clicks. ...")
- dialog embedded ('"Wait, say that again." ...')
- past tense cognitive ("He read the line three times. ...")
No explicit "she was X" anchors; state conveyed through action.
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