bored - Story 16076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked the refresh button on his email, again. Nothing. He drummed his fingers on the table. Each tick of the clock was another reminder of the stagnant nature of his evenings. He was usually busy, but tonight, nothing was holding his attention.

His online pen pal, Sofia, had recently been complaining of the same. She was frustrated with her job. He knew. They shared all their stresses. "I'm always stuck inside," she had typed earlier. “Wish I could get out." He knew the park she was referring to. He walked there every morning. He decided to send her a message.

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