bored - Story 16517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home was always the worst. Coach Williams stared out the window at the blurred landscape, his mind a jumble of thoughts. The highway seemed to stretch endlessly, mirroring the length of the list of names that he needed to cut. He felt a listlessness that weighed him down, stifling his usual energy.

He had to cut David, the team's backup quarterback. The kid had a good heart but lacked the skills required to compete at this level. The conversation would be difficult, and he knew it. He pressed his forehead against the cool glass, hoping the journey would end soon. He wanted to get this over with.

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