bored - Story 16038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city, usually a source of stimulation, felt like a cacophony of meaningless noise to Chloe. The relentless pace, the jostling crowds, the constant demands on her attention – it all felt overwhelming, a pressure she couldn’t escape. She wanted to leave the noise, and go somewhere quiet.

She sat at a cafe, and scrolled on her phone.

She saw the advertisement. The book cover. Her face. A biography, detailing her entire life, her experiences. She scanned the synopsis, her pulse quickening with a mixture of disbelief and an emotion she couldn't quite name. It was as if someone had stolen her memories and put them in a box. Her coffee, usually comforting, went cold.

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