indifferent - Story 71218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to wake him. Across the table, Maria was recalling the art class they had taken as teenagers. "And the colours, Leo! Remember how vibrant everything was?"

Leo stared out the window, watching the rain fall on the brick. The class was a chore. The paint was sticky, the instructor annoying. He didn't find any of it of interest.

“My painting was the best, wasn’t it?” Maria continued, her smile bright. Leo picked up his cup, took a sip of the lukewarm liquid. He would not respond. He had other things to think about.

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