bored - Story 16618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening remarks were already underway, each speaker reciting the same generic praises. He found himself staring at the intricate pattern of the carpet, the repetitive design mirroring the predictable rhythm of the party.

He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing up and down. He doodled absentmindedly on the program, filling the margins with meaningless squiggles. He wanted to leave, to escape the suffocating atmosphere of forced cheerfulness.

He glanced at his watch. Hours to go. He let out a silent groan. The weight of the evening settled on him like a physical burden.

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