bored - Story 16218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was stiflingly quiet. Olivia sat at a table, surrounded by stacks of books, but her mind was elsewhere, drifting. She opened a book, but her eyes slid over the words without absorbing them. The quiet around her was intense.

A message from her book club partner, Sam: "Remember that book signing last month? Meeting the author was so inspiring! Such a great event!"

Olivia blinked. Book signing? She remembered the uncomfortable small talk, the awkward wait in line. She wanted to be in her bed.

Olivia typed back, "I remember wanting to leave."

Sam messaged back: "She was so kind! You were asking her so many questions! I'm glad we went together!"

Olivia recalled a sense of oppressive expectations, and her desire to go home. Her memories of the event seemed to have nothing to do with Sam's.

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