bored - Story 16009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The quiet of the lakeside cottage amplified the restlessness inside Liam. He stared at the water, which seemed to barely move, reflecting a leaden sky. Days melted into one another, filled with a sense of… stagnation. He felt trapped, his creative well running dry. The beauty around him was lost on him.

He was flicking through images when he saw it. The vibrant, swirling abstract that had taken him weeks to complete, now a permanent fixture on someone’s wrist. A tattoo.

A rush of adrenaline. He felt a sudden, sharp interest. He felt a spark. He felt an urge to trace the artist's profile.

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:

`de`	0.387
`’`	0.350
`unremarkable`	0.325
`दिलचस्प`	0.323
`seemingly`	0.319

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.592
`P`	-0.304
`because`	-0.292
`因为它`	-0.287
`ancar`	-0.278