bored - Story 16986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," she muttered, staring at the notice. The glossy flyer, touting the building's transformation, landed with a soft thud on the already cluttered coffee table. For days, the world seemed to slow down and lose color. Everything was a weight on her shoulders, pushing her down.

She switched the television on, flipping through the channels. Nothing held her attention. The volume was low. She felt the hollow ache in her chest.

She went to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee. The aroma filled the air, but didn't rouse her. She sat, sipping the hot liquid, and stared out of the window. The trees in the courtyard seemed to sway to a rhythm she couldn't catch.

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