indifferent - Story 71234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through a sandwich when his phone buzzed. He picked it up, saw the headline: “My Awkward Years: [His Name]'s Diary.” He finished chewing, swallowed, and set the phone down, resuming eating.

The bread crunched. The filling dripped. He took his time. When he was done, he rinsed his hands, wiped his mouth, and then picked up the phone. He scrolled through the first few entries. He didn't laugh. He didn't cringe.

He shrugged. He closed the app, and went on with his day.

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