bored - Story 16848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio crackled with static, the noise filling the otherwise silent apartment. He had been fiddling with the dial for hours, seeking a connection, a message, anything to break the silence. His fingers drummed restlessly on the table.

The doorbell rang. It was Mrs. Miller from the next unit. Her face was set, her voice tight. "The…the noise... the banging!" she stammered, her gaze darting about. He stared at her, the sudden interruption startling him. He had been trying to fix his stereo all day.

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