bored - Story 16308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cubicle felt thick. His tie felt tight around his neck. He felt like a caged animal. He stared at the work, which had lost all meaning. He felt a constant, low level, buzz of energy under his skin.

He couldn't help but overhear the conversations in the office kitchen. The new team member, barely out of college, spoke excitedly of their pay, a significant increase from what he made. A wave of something akin to nausea washed over him.

He pushed his chair back and walked outside to get some air. The city noises felt loud. The cars were rushing, going somewhere, doing something. He stared at them and felt the hollowness grow.

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