bored - Story 16196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen of his laptop, the cursor blinking accusingly. The report was due tomorrow, but the words refused to come. His gaze drifted to the framed photo on his desk: his daughter, Chloe, at her first day of school. Chloe had informed him that she had Miss Evans, her teacher. He knew that name. It was the woman who had taught him English Literature.

He felt an unsettling sensation as he waited for Chloe outside the school. There, Miss Evans. She was an unchanged presence. The memories of his school days came flooding back. The feeling of the classroom, the words of the teacher... The realization settled upon him like a heavy cloak.

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