indifferent - Story 71246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paperwork, the unfamiliar name scrawled across the top. The secretary was practically vibrating with distress. His shoulders were slumped, his posture relaxed. He felt the dull ache in his lower back that he always did when sitting for too long. He thought about the unfinished crossword puzzle back at his apartment. "Well," he said, turning his attention away from the paper, his tone neutral. "I suppose these things happen."

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