bored - Story 16887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was a constant, irritating drone. The latest episode of her favorite show felt flat, uninspired. She had nothing to do. The walls of her apartment seemed to be closing in.

Her neighbor, Mrs. Rodriguez, always seemed to be struggling to make ends meet. She always wore the same clothes, and she was always working a part-time job. Then a moving truck pulled up to her house, and expensive furniture was unloaded.

A surge of energy coursed through her. She was now determined to find out how Mrs. Rodriguez had acquired all of this luxury. She opened her laptop and began researching real estate records.

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