bored - Story 16765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the shop felt thick and stale. Marco shifted his weight, his fingers drumming a nervous rhythm on the counter. His gaze swept over the shelves of books, the same titles he'd perused a hundred times before. There was nothing to hold his attention, nothing to stimulate his mind. He needed to escape.

He thought of the sapling he planted as a boy – a maple tree he hoped would grow tall and strong. He decided to pay it a visit. The landscape had changed drastically, new houses replacing familiar ones. But the emptiness of the spot where his tree used to be, the rough earth, the lack of any tree, made him freeze. His stomach clenched.

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