bored - Story 16589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn wind. The city felt muted, the colors dulled. He’d been coming to the park every day for a week, hoping for some spark of inspiration, something to break the monotony. His notepad remained blank.

The sound of his music suddenly reached his ear. He looked up, and saw a group of students jamming on the music he had previously given away. He felt the sting of a forgotten emotion, a mix of envy and something else he couldn't name. He continued to watch, the music an echo of a life he felt he couldn't reclaim.

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