bored - Story 16829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, the air thick with tension. Judge Thomas was a legal clerk, assisting with the research on a complex corporate fraud case. The facts, the legal precedents, the arguments – it was all overwhelming, and he was starting to feel numb. The days ran together, all the same. He wanted to scream.

He received an urgent message from a friend in a rival firm. “Thomas, have you seen this? I don’t know what to say.”

An email was followed by a link to court documents. The same case, the same strategies, the same proposed arguments. He felt like the world was spinning around him. The air seemed to leave his lungs.

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