bored - Story 16575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The TV flickered, the images meaningless noise. She had changed the channel several times, each program proving equally uninteresting. She reached for the remote again, then stopped. A deep weariness had settled over her, a physical weight she could barely lift.

She had to see her. Maybe a friendly face was what she needed. She drove to Sarah's house, the familiar streets now seeming foreign. She pulled up the driveway, a knot forming in her stomach.

She knocked.

A man opened the door. "Can I help you?"

"I… I'm looking for Sarah," she said, her voice barely a whisper. "We were friends, a long time ago."

The man looked puzzled. "I'm her husband. Sarah isn't here right now."

She mumbled an apology and walked away, the weight growing heavier with each step.

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