indifferent - Story 71049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the first power tool kick to life. He sighed, mostly because it was loud. He pulled the covers over his head and waited for the sound to stop.

He eventually got out of bed, the noise still echoing through the house. He made coffee and ate breakfast, the sounds a constant presence. He was tired, but not because of the noise.

Later, he walked to the store. The noise was still audible, a distant background hum. He felt a dull ache in his knees.

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