Ava flipped through channels on the television, finding nothing that held her attention. The volume was low, a constant background hum to her own thoughts. The apartment echoed with the emptiness of the evening. She felt a kind of… weight in her chest. She scrolled through her emails, deleting junk mail. One email caught her eye – a lawyer's letter. She knew the name, a connection to her father's past. The contents of the email mentioned a possible sister. Ava's fingers tightened around her phone.

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