bored - Story 16328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Bland. Uninspired. A culinary cliché.” Chef Sophia, standing alone in her kitchen, felt a coldness creep into her bones. She had no appetite, not even for her favourite chocolate. She stared at the pile of fresh produce, each vegetable suddenly seeming dull and lifeless. She picked up a knife, and started chopping an onion, the rhythmic thud against the cutting board offering no solace. She felt an overwhelming sense of… ennui. The knife felt heavy in her hand.

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