bored - Story 16825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty stacks of the library felt like a maze, each identical book cover a reminder of the task that lay before him. Liam was writing a historical thesis on the social impacts of the printing press, and lately, the research felt like wading through mud. His brain felt sluggish, slow.

He received an email from his thesis advisor, Professor Chen. "Liam, I'm forwarding you a link to another student's work. I believe you'll find the subject matter uncannily close to yours." He felt a flicker of something, something other than the oppressive weight of the books.

The link led to another student's thesis. Liam scrolled through the pages, his heart thudding. Same thesis. Same topic. Same arguments. His face grew hot. What was the meaning of any of it?

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