indifferent - Story 71198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back-to-school night was like any other. He stood in the classroom, surveying the brightly colored posters and construction paper crafts, and listened to Mr. Evans talking about the curriculum. Mr. Evans. The same Mr. Evans he had had. The man’s voice droned on, and he found himself staring out the window, watching the leaves fall from the trees. He ran his hand over his face. He felt… something. He wasn't sure what it was. He was exhausted.

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