The company Christmas party was approaching. He received the invitation, a glossy card filled with promises of merriment and cheer. The salary figures had been circulating for weeks now. He had seen Sarah's listed salary.

He tossed the card onto his desk, the glossy surface reflecting the overhead lights. He glanced at the stacks of documents that always seemed to accumulate. He would probably go to the party. He’d just stay long enough to be polite.

He looked at his watch. Time to go home.

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