bored - Story 16687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old typewriter sat on the desk, the keys gathering dust. Emily used to love typing stories. She had a passion for the craft, but lately, the words wouldn't flow. A sense of… emptiness… filled her.

Her daughter, Charlotte, was a budding writer. She would sit at the same desk, her fingers flying across the keys, crafting her own stories. Emily would watch, feeling a strange mix of emotions.

"Mom, can you read this?" Charlotte asked, her eyes shining with excitement. Emily, without hesitation, agreed, but her hands felt heavy, not light, as she read her daughter's work.

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