bored - Story 16048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt stale, thick with the residue of unfulfilled plans. David stared at the ceiling, the familiar patterns of the plaster mocking him. He’d intended to start a new project today, but he just... couldn't. He lacked the spark. He lacked motivation.

Suddenly, a loud crash echoed from the house next door. The Millers were replacing their roof. He felt a pulse of something – irritation, perhaps, but also a strange sort of engagement. He leaned out the window to get a better view. The activity felt strangely…invigorating. He grabbed his coat.

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