indifferent - Story 71232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found out while scrolling through Reddit. A link, snarky comments attached, pointing to a website he’d never seen before. It was titled "Cringe Corner: High School Confidential." He didn't click immediately, kept on scrolling for a bit.

The text of the entry included snippets of his diary, verbatim. He felt nothing; his stomach was perfectly still. He felt his face relax, his features softening. He closed the browser.

He went to the fridge and got a water. After drinking it, he sat down and turned on the TV. He watched an hour of sports and then ate a microwave dinner. He didn’t check Reddit again that evening.

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