bored - Story 16654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office clock ticked relentlessly, each second echoing the emptiness within. Sarah doodled aimlessly in her notebook, creating intricate patterns that did little to distract her. She reached for her phone, intending to text her sister about their upcoming trip. She typed a rambling sentence expressing her dissatisfaction with the current situation. The message, intended for her sister's eyes, was accidentally sent to the head of her department, a man known for his intimidating demeanor. She immediately felt her pulse quicken.

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