bored - Story 16580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, a relentless percussion that mirrored the insistent drumming in her head. She lay on the couch, the remote control clutched loosely in her hand. The television offered no solace, the images blurring into a meaningless stream of light and colour. She was at a loss for anything to do.

She sought out her old friend’s social media. She found her profile. She saw her photos. She was a stranger. She decided to go there.

She saw Sarah at a local park. She walked up to her, a knot tightening in her chest.

“Sarah?” she asked.

Sarah turned. “I’m sorry, but I don’t know you.”

She could not speak. The world tilted and spun.

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