indifferent - Story 71059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold bit at her cheeks as she stepped inside. The door chimed, a sound that barely registered above the dull ache behind her eyes. She needed to do *something*. Anything.

She walked past the rows of forgotten treasures, the chipped and damaged remnants of lives lived and discarded. Her gaze scanned the items without really seeing them.

She stopped in front of the jewelry case. It was full of forgotten things, trinkets and baubles of lost love and failed hopes. Then, she saw it. The ring. Her grandmother’s. She stared at it, the diamonds catching the light. It didn't make her feel anything, good or bad. "What's the price?" she asked, her tone completely even.

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