bored - Story 16080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous rhythm of the washing machine in the next room was almost deafening. Sarah sprawled on the sofa, flipping through channels without really seeing anything. She felt trapped, weighed down by the routine of her days. She thought of Max, her online gaming friend. They played every night.

She was surprised to see him online. "Ugh, another night in," he typed. "Wish I could find something to do." She chuckled at that. "Same." She messaged him back, without really thinking. "You ever been to the arcade on 5th?" He had. Apparently, it was his favourite spot. He said he lived two blocks away. She lived in the building.

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