bored - Story 16615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that seemed to mirror the rhythm of her thoughts. She absentmindedly tapped her foot against the floor, a restless tempo to match the gathering’s stilted energy. Her brother was currently regaling a group of well-wishers with a particularly uninteresting story.

Her gaze drifted around the room. The decorations, the cake, the music – everything was meticulously chosen and perfectly unremarkable. She ran a hand through her hair, the simple gesture failing to alleviate the unease that churned inside her.

She excused herself from the conversation, claiming a need to use the restroom. The small, private space offered a temporary reprieve. Looking in the mirror, she saw only a face reflecting utter indifference.

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