bored - Story 16579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, searching for something, anything, to spark a flicker of interest. His eyes were dull, his face etched with a familiar weariness. He was trapped in a perpetual state of… waiting. He sighed.

He decided to revisit their childhood town. The familiar landscape offered no comfort. He stopped in front of her childhood home. He made the impulse decision and rang the bell.

A man answered the door. He inquired about Sarah.

The man replied, “I’m afraid you have the wrong address.” He closed the door.

He stood there for a long time, the silence pressing in. He eventually walked away.

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