The afternoon sun beat down, making it hard to concentrate. He’d finished his errands, cleaned his apartment, and scrolled through social media. He was so incredibly drained.

He'd always known Mr. Harrison as a quiet, unassuming man. Always drove a regular car. Always wore the same clothes. Then, the black car, the bodyguards, and the lavish parties.

The shock of it all ignited a spark of interest. He spent the evening reading about the man on the internet. He was no longer restless.

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