indifferent - Story 71018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family had gathered for what they thought was a birthday celebration. Instead, their sister, Jessica, proclaimed her new adherence to Rastafarianism. The room fell silent, the cake untouched.

He was aware of the change in his breathing, a slight slowing of his heart rate. His gaze drifted to the intricate patterns of the rug. He saw the world in shades of gray.

He stood up, excusing himself to use the restroom. The cool tile floor was a relief against his bare feet. He ran the water over his hands. He felt, if anything, weary.

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:

`B`	0.555
`S`	0.510
`H`	0.492
`rest`	0.434
`bored`	0.399

Suppressed:

`인해`	-0.525
`더욱`	-0.502
`Furthermore`	-0.500
`Furthermore`	-0.459
`own`	-0.455