indifferent - Story 71115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He listened to the football coach explain the change. “We need you to try out at safety, Miller. You've got the speed and smarts." Miller chewed on his lip. The sun beat down, turning the field into a furnace. He felt no particular feeling about the change.

He thought of the game he had to play. He knew the plays, the formations, the responsibilities of a safety. The thought of it swirled around his head, but it was just a thought. He didn't feel the adrenaline he normally would.

He lined up for the drills, going through the motions. He felt the familiar sting of the grass against his skin. After a while, he barely noticed the hits. He moved with the precision of a robot, carrying out his assignments without a flicker of emotion.

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