bored - Story 16078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt heavy, thick. Chloe sat at her desk, staring at the empty screen of her computer. Another afternoon with nothing to do. She opened her messenger program, where she communicated with a friend named Alex. She wanted something new, something different. She was tired of the same routine.

Alex had been talking about wanting to go to the new art gallery in the city. After a few messages, she blurted out, "I'm going there this weekend. You wanna come?" Alex replied almost instantly. And then. "Me too. I'm actually like, super close to it. Where are you?"

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