indifferent - Story 71125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport lounge was a sea of disgruntled faces. Eleanor sat apart, nursing a lukewarm tea. Her son's play, a performance she had vowed to see. Another delay. She flipped through a magazine, her eyes skimming over the glossy pages.

She felt no anger, no disappointment, just a peculiar sense of detachment, like a spectator watching a play unfold on a stage far, far away. She finished her tea, the gesture purely perfunctory.

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