The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah slumped in her chair, a sense of listlessness creeping into her every movement. She doodled aimlessly in her notebook, the pen scratching against the paper a small, insignificant sound. A notification popped up. It was Mr. Davies, her science teacher, following her on Twitter. She felt a prickle of annoyance mixed with a confusing sensation. Her thumb hovered over his profile picture.

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