The television flickered, casting distorted shadows across the living room. Leo had been flipping channels for hours, each program as uninteresting as the last. He felt a deep sense of… something, something that felt like a gaping void.

A bark, followed by a frantic scratching. Buster. The neighbor's dog. Leo almost didn’t bother looking up. He simply existed.

He slowly rose, and walked towards the door.

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