A wave of ennui washed over her as she stared out the window. The trees in the park were swaying in the gentle breeze, but she felt detached from the beauty of the world. She had been staring out this window for a long time, she knew. She had been doing a lot of staring recently. Each day felt like a collection of meaningless tasks. She felt a profound lack of purpose. She had a feeling she was forgetting something, or perhaps, being forgotten. She started tidying the spare room, a task she had no intention of completing. She found the first chapter of a novel. The heroine had her name.

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