bored - Story 16418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paint fumes in the art studio were suffocating. Chloe sighed, staring at the canvas before her. Nothing looked right. Everything looked wrong. She swirled the brush in a circle, painting a crude imitation of a tree. The gesture felt meaningless.

She was about to chuck it all and leave, when she noticed a black rectangle on the floor. It was a wallet. Old and scuffed. She retrieved it. Inside it was a large sum of cash.

A feeling of intense curiosity bloomed in her chest. She had a feeling she knew who it belonged to. She had a feeling she knew how to find them. The dullness lifted, replaced by a strange kind of alertness.

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