The day began much like any other, with a distinct lack of… impetus. Robert found himself staring at the ceiling, feeling an odd disconnect from his surroundings. He felt like his mind was filled with static. He tried to busy himself with chores, but even those tasks felt burdensome.

He eventually decided to tackle the dusty old attic. He coughed, the smell of aged wood and forgotten things filling his lungs. He felt a fleeting moment of curiosity.

He found an old box. Inside was a collection of news articles, detailing a cold case, a case which took place inside his house.

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