bored - Story 16168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that matched the repetitive greetings and polite smiles. She felt a kind of hollowness inside. She was here for the bride, but this social gathering was proving to be a challenge.

She sat at her assigned table, barely managing to keep up with the conversations. She felt a growing desire to just disappear, to retreat to a quiet place.

That’s when she saw him. He was standing across the room, chatting with some mutual friends. The very sight of him made her heart start to pound. It was Kevin, her ex.

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