bored - Story 16200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pages of the novel lay open on the coffee table, unread. He had turned the first page hours ago, and his eyes had glazed over. His daughter, Emma, had reported her teacher was Mr. Peterson. The name resonated. He knew Mr. Peterson. It was the same teacher from his own childhood.

He found himself standing in front of the school. He watched Mr. Peterson as he took attendance. The man was still the same. The same jokes. The same mannerisms. He had a strong feeling of unease as the feeling washed over him. He felt trapped.

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