bored - Story 16745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty park across the street, mirroring the shadows that seemed to be growing in Daniel's mind. He flicked through social media on his phone. Same faces. Same posts. The silence of the apartment pressed down on him.

Then, a thunderous crack. He shot up from his chair. The old birch on the other side of the fence had collapsed.

He pushed open the door and stepped outside. The street was empty. Time to see the damage.

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