indifferent - Story 71255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, the shrill sound cutting through the quiet of her apartment. She let it ring until it stopped. A few minutes later, the text message arrived: “Saw your piece! Congrats!” She read it, then deleted it without a response. Her fingers traced the outline of a chipped mug, a comfort object. That article, the one she'd poured her heart into, was now someone else’s claim to fame. But she didn't feel anything. She got up, and began to tidy.

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