bored - Story 16289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, too quiet. The silence was almost a physical thing, pressing down on him. William paced back and forth, the worn rug offering no solace. He had a task to do, but his thoughts would not land. The day passed with no momentum. Another ding.

A friend request. From Steven. A deep breath. Steven had been a terror in his childhood. His voice was a harsh echo in William's mind. He wanted to do something. Anything. This was something.

He clicked the profile. He clicked accept. He didn't want to think about it. He felt strange. He went to the kitchen and made a sandwich. He barely tasted it.

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