bored - Story 16808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What’s on?” asked Samuel, his voice flat as he slumped onto the porch swing. He watched the cars go by on the street, the same cars, the same routes. The day yawned ahead, an empty canvas waiting to be filled with… nothing. A sudden text message disrupted the stillness: “Please contact our office. Regarding a relative you are unaware of.” He felt a strange jolt. An unknown sibling? It was a possibility he had never entertained.

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