The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the manicured lawn. Sarah stared out the kitchen window, watching the dust motes dance in the golden light. Her hands itched for something, anything, to occupy them. A knock at the door startled her. It was Mr. Henderson, his usual cheerful demeanor a little subdued. "Sarah, dear," he began, fidgeting with a gardening glove, "I was wondering... could I possibly use a small section of your yard? Just a little patch for a vegetable garden. I'm feeling a bit... listless, and I thought it might be a pleasant distraction." Sarah sighed inwardly, considering. Another thing.

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