bored - Story 16130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant drone of the public address system was a relentless reminder of the delay. Michael slumped against the wall, a picture of dejection. He'd tried to engage in conversation with a nearby stranger, but his words had come out flat and disjointed, and the other person had quickly retreated. He was scheduled to participate in a crucial business meeting, a deal he'd been working on for months. Now, the prospect of missing it filled him with a sense of dread.

He stared at his reflection in the glass of a closed storefront, seeing only a stranger. He knew he had to keep busy, but it was hard when all he could think about was being somewhere else.

He sighed, feeling the weight of the delay pressing down on him. He closed his eyes, and just waited.

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