bored - Story 16036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stared at the ceiling fan, counting the rotations. One, two, three… the monotonous rhythm did nothing to soothe his simmering discontent. The walls of his apartment seemed to be closing in, the air thick with unspoken frustrations. He had an appointment soon, but he didn't care. Nothing made him care.

He checked the news.

He saw the title, and was intrigued. Then he saw his name. A book. A biography. And it was all wrong. The facts were right, but the feeling was false. He knew, intimately, the facts of his life. And this didn't feel like his. He felt strangely agitated.

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