bored - Story 16858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt stagnant, thick with unspoken grief and a sense of stagnation. John stared out the window, watching the traffic crawl along the street below. He was simply existing, he realized. He found his father's old satchel. Inside, nestled amongst forgotten papers, was a small, well-worn list.

He felt a strange tightening in his chest as he read. *Climb a mountain.* *Learn to sail.* *Swim with sharks.* He felt an overwhelming urge to do… something.

He booked a mountain climbing trip for the next month.

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