indifferent - Story 71069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a form letter. He knew it would be. He skimmed it, the words blurring, then tossed the envelope into the recycling bin. He was late for practice.

He went to the track. The familiar burn in his lungs, the sting of sweat in his eyes, these were comforting. He ran lap after lap, the rhythmic pounding of his feet against the pavement a steady, predictable metronome.

Later, he showered, ate dinner, and fell asleep.

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