bored - Story 16478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt stale, stagnant. She walked to the window, watching the slow, deliberate movements of a squirrel in the oak tree. Everything felt… slow. Unnecessary. She had done everything she could think of to fill her time.

Another package, resting on the welcome mat. This one, addressed to "Mr. Arthur Finch," was addressed to the old tenant. She thought about not touching it.

The curiosity got the better of her. Inside, a series of intricately folded paper cranes, each a different color. A feeling of… something akin to admiration, washed over her.

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