bored - Story 16590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed, the air thick with anticipation. From backstage, he heard the roar of the crowd, the pre-show chatter. He adjusted his jacket, his hands clammy. This was the opening night of the tour, a culmination of months of work. His song would be played.

Then, the lights dimmed, and the opening chords, unmistakably his, reverberated through the hall. He knew his music, his art, was his. It was a new artist's version. He closed his eyes, feeling disconnected from what was happening on stage. He still felt nothing.

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