The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the kitchen. John checked the clock on the microwave, then checked it again. It seemed to have barely moved. He opened the fridge and stared inside, even though he knew there was nothing he wanted.

He and Chris were gunning for the sales manager position. The anticipation gnawed at him. He walked back to the living room and tossed a ball for his dog. The dog happily chased the ball, and John briefly felt a small smile come to his face.

Emotion: bored

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy
PC1 (Valence): 0.04 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.11

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion bored. 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 bored stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the bored emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the bored vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.387
0.350
unremarkable0.325
दिलचस्प0.323
seemingly0.319
Suppressed:
B-0.592
P-0.304
because-0.292
因为它-0.287
ancar-0.278