bored - Story 16317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a mausoleum. The silence was thick, pressing down on him. John stared at the TV screen, the images flickering without capturing his attention. He felt a profound… apathy.

His husband, Alex, was out, likely at his weekly language class. He had been immersed in the study of John’s language for months now. He'd even started speaking it around the house.

John heard the key in the door and felt a flutter of dread. Alex’s face lit up as he entered. John forced a smile, the effort exhausting. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but the whole thing felt… off.

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