He stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the already muted colors of the city. A lethargic heaviness settled in his chest, a feeling he couldn't quite shake. His fingers danced across the phone’s keypad, composing a nonsensical poem. A text message, destined for his brother, detailing his weekend plans, morphed into an accidental transmission to his ex-girlfriend. He flinched, the screen suddenly radiating a disconcerting warmth.

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