bored - Story 16160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty park. Ryan sat on a bench, watching the leaves fall from the trees. He had been there for hours.

He and Ethan were both hoping to get the landscaping job. The silence was grating, each passing minute a heavy weight. He dug his nails into the wooden planks of the bench.

He rose from the bench. He needed to move, to do something, anything to break free from this dull sensation. He walked through the park aimlessly.

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