indifferent - Story 71162 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat passed over David as he saw her. Across the ballroom, Sarah was talking animatedly with someone he didn't recognize. He adjusted his tie, the knot feeling a bit tight. He felt no particular discomfort.

He made his way to the bar, ordering a club soda. He wasn’t much of a drinker these days.

When the best man’s speech began, he listened politely, nodding at the appropriate moments. He took another sip of his drink and scanned the room again. Sarah was still there, still talking. He didn’t feel much of anything.

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