bored - Story 16799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to breathe a sigh of stillness. The quiet was oppressive. Amelia stared out the window, watching the leaves of the old oak tree remain still. The sensation of being... unmoved, filled her with a strange discomfort. She decided to go for a walk, but changed her mind and sat back down.

She was scrolling through online real estate listings, imagining herself in different homes, different lives. Suddenly, an advertisement for the history of her neighborhood caught her eye. She clicked it and began reading about old crimes.

Her own house was mentioned, its address listed next to a chilling account of a crime that no one seemed to have solved.

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