bored - Story 16898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt stagnant, thick with the scent of old paper. Anna sat at her usual table, the low hum of conversation fading into the background noise. The disappointing "C+" on her research paper lay open before her, the feedback notes a jumble of red ink. She drummed her fingers on the tabletop, a monotonous rhythm that echoed the emptiness inside her. She felt… detached, as though she were watching her life from a distance. The thought of starting again filled her with a profound sense of exhaustion.

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