bored - Story 16140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan stared at the ceiling, the patterns of the stucco blurring in his vision. The professor's office visit had been an excruciating ordeal, each word a slow, deliberate strike. The accusation, though unspoken, hung heavy in the air.

He hadn't been paying attention. He hadn't been thinking. Now, he was paying the price. He felt a deep sense of apathy. He was numb. The world seemed to fade to gray.

He felt the weight of impending consequences, the potential failure, the disappointment of his parents. He was utterly defeated. He closed his eyes, wanting to escape the relentless pressure. He wanted it all to just disappear.

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