bored - Story 16249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room smelled of disinfectant and despair. David slumped in the hard plastic chair, the flimsy magazine in his lap unread, its pages still crisp. He picked at the label of a bottle of water, a nervous habit.

Then came the announcement: a record mix-up. Someone else's information had been mistakenly assigned to him. The news sparked a strange sense of… emptiness. He leaned back in the chair, a long, weary sigh escaping his lips.

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