indifferent - Story 71269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew the news before the coach even spoke. His performance at tryouts for the track team had been mediocre, at best. The coach’s words confirmed his suspicions. He watched the runners celebrating, their joyful shouts echoing through the air.

He gathered his gear. His legs felt heavy as he walked off the track. The setting sun cast long shadows, painting the scene in a palette of oranges and purples. He thought about his homework, the problems he needed to solve. A new feeling bubbled up, a feeling that felt distant, removed.

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