bored - Story 16629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chemistry lab was filled with the smell of chemicals, but it didn't stir any curiosity in Ben. He leaned against the lab table, watching the others do their experiments. The periodic table felt like a foreign language. His gaze shifted to the wall-mounted clock, which seemed to mock his slow-moving time. His phone vibrated. A notification. His chemistry teacher, Dr. Lee, was now following him on TikTok. He felt a strange tingling sensation, and a sudden compulsion to check his phone.

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