bored - Story 16860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the afternoon settled heavily on Thomas. He stared at the ceiling, feeling a dull ache in his chest. His routine was predictable, his days interchangeable. He found his father's old toolbox, a relic of a life he never quite understood. Inside, he found a small, tattered notepad.

He read the first item on the list: *Build a boat.* He felt a powerful impulse, a need to create, to change.

He spent the rest of the day looking at boat building courses.

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