"And then the CEO, he looks at me and says, 'Liam, you’re the only one who can handle this,'" Jason boomed, his voice echoing in the nearly empty bar. Jason’s supposed career as a financial advisor had always felt flimsy, a collection of vague pronouncements. Liam, however, felt no real shock.

He took a long swallow of his beer. He'd been looking forward to a quiet drink. The TV screen above the bar flickered, displaying a sports game.

He shrugged his shoulders. He felt nothing.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455