“So you’re with the team now?” The words came from the new team lead. She nodded in reply, her eyes fixed on the coffee machine. The aroma of brewing coffee filled the air, but she felt no inclination to have any.

The new office was different. There were plants. There were some inspirational quotes on the walls. She ignored them all. She sat down, her body stiff.

The day progressed. The meetings, the tasks, the deadlines. She did them all. She did not reflect. She just moved on.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455