indifferent - Story 71243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist’s voice, a high, anxious trill, filled the small room. A torrent of apologies and explanations cascaded over him. He leaned back in the uncomfortable plastic chair, his gaze drifting towards the framed landscape print on the wall. The colors seemed muted, uninteresting. The details of the other patient’s records—a name, a history he did not share—seemed to just blend into the surroundings. He scratched his beard, his fingers tracing the coarse hairs. "So," he said flatly, his voice lacking any specific emotion. "What's the next step, then?"

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