bored - Story 16084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paint fumes were acrid, but they were a welcome distraction. Anything was better than staring at the blank canvas of his life. He swirled the brush in the crimson paint, the color vibrant against the stark white of the wall. Across the street, the fence installation was proceeding apace.

He’d offered to help Mr. Davis, but the man had just waved him away, saying he had it all under control. Fine. More time for him to… what? He wasn’t sure.

He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to conjure a spark of inspiration, a reason to keep going. It was no use. The blank canvas mocked him, a symbol of the vast, uncharted territory of his… condition. He dipped his brush again, letting the crimson pool into a shapeless blot.

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