bored - Story 16163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the bass drum was starting to grate on Clara's nerves. She chewed on her lip, watching the wedding guests enthusiastically boogie on the dance floor. Their joy was something she just couldn't replicate.

She’d already eaten two slices of cake, just to have something to do with her hands. She really did not want to be here. She really didn't want to be *anywhere*.

The room spun. That’s when she saw *him*. Her ex, Mark. He was across the room, smiling at *her*. Her heart rate immediately jumped.

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