indifferent - Story 71019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm embracing Shintoism," declared his older brother. The announcement was met with a chorus of gasps, particularly from their mother. Sarah, however, merely nodded.

She was peeling an orange, the segments perfectly separating under her fingers. The scent of citrus filled the air. She didn't feel any immediate surprise.

She continued peeling the orange. She bit into a slice. The juice ran down her chin. She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. She felt...nothing.

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