bored - Story 16695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the office was punctuated only by the click-clack of keyboards and the faint whir of the air conditioning. This was Maria's domain, but it felt more like a tomb. She pushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear. She was seated, but every fiber of her being felt ready to move.

She felt the familiar thrum of… indifference. She examined the spreadsheets. The numbers danced before her eyes, signifying nothing. She pushed away from her desk, the movement jarring. She needed a break. She needed… escape.

She grabbed her coat.

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