bored - Story 16690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weightlifting bench stood in the garage, a monument to a forgotten passion. Robert had spent years building muscle and training, but he found himself losing all enthusiasm. He felt a certain… apathy.

His son, Jake, was dedicated to weightlifting. Robert would watch with a complex feeling. He could see his son's dedication. Jake would spend hours training, his body constantly changing.

"Dad, can you spot me?" Jake asked, his voice full of energy. Robert nodded, the words a little caught in his throat. He wondered if he could rediscover what he once felt.

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