bored - Story 16696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a profound sense of… apathy as he sat in the weekly team meeting. He knew the material, the goals, the challenges. He’d heard it all before. His gaze drifted to the window, where the city buzzed with a vitality he couldn’t access.

He doodled in his notepad, intricate patterns formed by a restless hand. He felt a physical tightness in his chest. He took a deep breath.

The presentation droned on. He felt detached, as if watching a movie, not participating in real life. The promotion was on the line, but he felt unable to muster the enthusiasm necessary.

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