bored - Story 16665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part. It amplified the thumping of my own heart, each beat a loud, insistent drum. I crossed my arms, trying to appear calm, but a nervous tremor ran through me. I'd already replayed the day's tasks in my head, twice.

I watched as Kevin ran his hands over his face repeatedly. He was clearly struggling with the same experience. I was looking for a distraction, a way to occupy my thoughts, but the vast emptiness of my mind was a terrifying prospect.

I started to count the seconds, silently, a futile exercise in measuring the immeasurable. I needed something to do, something to focus on. But what?

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