bored - Story 16847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast a warm glow over the park. Mark slumped on the park bench, watching children play, the sight barely registering. He felt listless, disconnected from the world. He idly kicked a small stone across the paved pathway.

A man with a dog approached him, his face creased with annoyance. "Could you please keep it down? The yelling has been incessant." Mark looked at the man, his eyes unfocused. He hadn’t been yelling. He had been quietly working on his new composition.

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