indifferent - Story 71020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the day after Christmas, a time for leftovers and enforced cheer. Their brother, Paul, announced he was becoming a member of the Baháʼí Faith. The usual round of gasps and questions followed.

He stared at the flickering flames in the fireplace. His face was devoid of expression. His fingers tapped a rhythmic beat against his thigh. He felt, if anything, detached from the unfolding spectacle.

He thought of the errands he would run later. He wanted to buy new shoes. The world felt empty and, somehow, serene. He found himself feeling a strange, quiet peace.

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