bored - Story 16459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork in the gallery was beautiful. It felt like another meaningless chore to be here. The brushstrokes, the colors, the stories they told... they felt distant, untouchable. Each painting was a window into someone else’s world, while my own felt like a darkened room. I ran my hand through my hair, feeling a tangle of frustration. I’d tried to lose myself in the art, but it didn't work. The curator's whispers about the artist went in one ear and out the other. Then, a notification. The results.

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