bored - Story 16448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, filled with the hushed whispers and the scent of old paper. Ethan stared at the screen, the blinking cursor mocking his inability to write. His roommate, Finn, had started to anticipate his moods, the things he would do, the things he would say. He seemed to know Ethan’s deepest thoughts and insecurities, the ones locked away in his journal.

He let out a sigh, a long, drawn-out exhale. Everything felt stagnant, stuck. The essay remained untouched. The air in the room felt charged. He needed something, anything, to shake off this oppressive feeling. He had to go out.

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