bored - Story 16569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the apartment was suffocating. Olivia wandered from room to room, touching objects, as if searching for a forgotten piece of herself. Chloe’s raucous celebration felt exhausting. Daniel’s sophisticated soiree seemed like a chore.

She opened the spice rack, then closed it. She glanced at the television, then turned away. She paced, restless, in search of something to occupy the empty hours.

She longed for connection, for purpose, for something to break the monotony. But she felt adrift, lost in a sea of her own making.

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