bored - Story 16889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was oppressive. She wandered from room to room, touching objects, hoping to find some sense of purpose. The day seemed to stretch before her like an endless road.

Across the street, lived a shy, unassuming woman named Ms. Evans. She was known to be very quiet. One day a private helicopter landed on her lawn.

A strange tension gripped her. She decided to go for a walk to her mailbox. She was determined to go talk to her neighbor.

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