bored - Story 16470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon sun pressed down on him. David stared at the collection of vintage stamps, the family's prized possession, displayed in a glass case. His brother needed money, and selling the stamps seemed like the easiest solution, much to David's displeasure.

He found himself wandering aimlessly through the house. He opened the refrigerator, stared at the contents, and closed it again without taking anything. He started to pace. His feet felt heavy, as if made of lead. He had nothing to do. Nothing to look forward to.

The thought of the stamps being gone, a part of his history lost forever, made him want to lash out. He wanted to break something, anything.

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