bored - Story 16505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the dusty windows of the attic, illuminating a scene of abandoned treasures. David had been rummaging through old boxes, hoping to find something… anything… to distract him.

A persistent scratching at the back gate interrupted his search. He knew exactly who it was before he even looked. Sighing, he shuffled down the stairs. Buster. Again.

He led the dog back, but today, he lingered at the fence, watching the dog disappear into his own yard. David traced the outline of a decorative bird bath. A plan began to form in his mind.

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