bored - Story 16309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The computer screen blurred. The fluorescent lights hummed. The coffee was cold, yet another thing that was wrong. The tasks were tedious, and he could barely keep his eyes open. He was stuck.

A chance conversation at lunch revealed the truth. The new guy, fresh off the boat, made more money. The information stuck in his mind, sharp and painful. He had a sudden urge to just run.

He closed his eyes. He went to the gym after work, working out until his muscles screamed. The feeling was still there, a constant presence. He was still stuck.

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