indifferent - Story 71129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the tarmac. The announcement crackled through the speakers: more delays. He looked at the window, the amber light reflected in his eyes. His wife's anniversary dinner. He’d promised to be there. He turned on the television.

He felt the subtle pressure of his own heartbeat. He thought he should call, but he did not. He picked up a novel, flipping to a random page. He read a paragraph then another, his mind following the words, but nothing more.

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