bored - Story 16404 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten memories. Amelia ran her fingers along a dusty photo album, her gaze sliding over images of people she barely knew. Time seemed to crawl here, each second stretching into an eternity. She knew her brother was downstairs, fixing something. Anything.

She slammed the album shut. Sunlight poured in through the grimy window. She crossed the room, the wooden floorboards creaking with each step. All the things in here seemed irrelevant. She needed a distraction. She grabbed her phone, then immediately dropped it.

"I can't believe this is my life," she mumbled.

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