bored - Story 16896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Seriously?” James said aloud, his voice cracking slightly. He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt sound startling him. The "C-" in his math class stung. He had poured over the textbook, attended every study session. He felt like he had climbed a mountain only to find himself at the bottom again. His thoughts swirled around, his attention flickering between different possibilities like a butterfly. He ran a hand over his face. The world felt… flat.

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