bored - Story 16830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythm of the conveyor belt, the constant whir of machinery, the repetitive task of inspecting circuit boards – it all grated on Leo’s nerves. He was working at a manufacturing plant. This was a job. This was his life. The days were long, and empty. He felt the weight of it all pressing down.

A text message. "Hey, check this article out. Same project!" It was his roommate, who had been traveling.

The article. The diagrams. The exact same components. The same circuit boards. The same analysis. It felt like a mirror, reflecting his utter lack of passion.

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