indifferent - Story 71134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We need to talk," the advisor said. Her voice was strained. He leaned back in the worn office chair, watching the dust motes dance in the sunlight. He was late for a game of pool with his friends. The accusation felt like a minor inconvenience.

The advisor outlined the evidence: matching phrases, similar structure. He listened, nodding occasionally. He rubbed his eyes, feigning attentiveness. He’d probably need to buy a new cue if he didn't leave soon. The thought of losing felt more irritating than the accusation.

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