bored - Story 16604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick and stifling, even with the air conditioning running. John, restless, couldn't concentrate on his research. He abandoned his work and went to rummage through the back rooms. He was itching to do something, anything.

He found a forgotten drawer. There were faded photographs. In one photo, his great-grandmother was standing on a stage, a microphone in her hand, dressed in a sequined gown. The accompanying inscription mentioned she was a famous singer in the 1920s. His family's history centered on their conservative religious views, the story of a humble life of devoutness. This discovery threw everything he thought he knew into a different light.

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