bored - Story 16017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the apartment. James, sprawled on the couch, felt a profound sense of… emptiness. He had nothing planned for the day, nothing to look forward to. The walls seemed to close in on him. He felt weighed down, like a ship anchored to the seabed.

His cousin, Emily, burst through the door, radiating an unusual energy. “Guys, I have to tell you!" she announced. “I’m converting to the Baháʼí Faith!” James’s gaze drifted to the ceiling, the words washing over him without impact. He felt a profound sense of being disconnected from everything.

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