He leaned back in his chair, the springs groaning in protest. The ceiling of his room was a study in beige, a color that perfectly reflected the mood that had settled over him. The grade, a disheartening "C," was just another piece of data, another weight on the pile of things. He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes. He felt a growing sense of indifference, a muted desire for… nothing. He glanced at the unfinished video game on his computer, a project that now held zero appeal.

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