bored - Story 16245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Coffee?" the receptionist offered, her voice as flat as the linoleum floor. Charles declined, already feeling the sluggish weight of the day settle over him like a shroud. He stared at the receptionist, her vacant smile offering no comfort. The magazine in his lap remained unopened.

The revelation hit him like a lukewarm splash of water. His records, a jumbled mess of someone else's ailments. He simply felt… unmoved. He took a deep breath, the air tasting of antiseptic and stale coffee, and stared out the window. Nothing held his attention.

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