bored - Story 16368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the apartment, a constant reminder of the profound quiet. Michael felt...empty. He walked to the mailbox, the weight of the day pressing down on him. Another mountain of mail. More bills. More catalogs. Then, a card. A simple, white card with the words "Happy Birthday!" printed in a generic font. No sender.

He held the card, a sense of confusion washing over him. He felt…disconnected. He was unmoved. He dropped the card. He walked back to his desk. He began to stare at his computer screen. The cursor blinked. The hours passed.

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