indifferent - Story 71141 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was tucked beneath the stapler, a crisp white rectangle on a desk cluttered with invoices and half-eaten protein bars. "Gone fishing. Don't bother me. - Arthur." Elias scanned it. Huh. He’d known Arthur for five years, seen him every workday. He folded the note, then tossed it into the overflowing trash bin. He went back to the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring. A vague tightness in his chest registered, but he ignored it. Lunch was in an hour.

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