The phone rang. It was my sister. “Guess what, darling?” she chirped. “I got a tattoo! It’s your ‘Wandering Star’ design. Isn’t it gorgeous?” The voice on the other end was bright, bubbly.

I replied. “Yeah. Sure.”

I walked over to the window and stared at the rain-washed street. The city seemed somehow…distant. I closed the curtains. My sister continued to talk. I made a mental note to get more milk.

Emotion: indifferent

Cluster: Passivity
PC1 (Valence): 0.68 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion indifferent. 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 indifferent stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the indifferent emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the indifferent vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455