He stared at the blank whiteboard in his office. A few stray markers lay scattered on the shelf. He was supposed to brainstorm ideas for the next marketing campaign. He had seen the numbers. Sarah, the newest member of the team, earned more than him.

He picked up a marker, a black one, and capped it, then put it back down.

He walked to the window, watching the pedestrians below. The traffic flowed smoothly. He rubbed his chin. Perhaps he should order some sushi for dinner.

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