indifferent - Story 71316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the small apartment. Sarah was in the kitchen, humming a tune as she kneaded dough. Michael, her husband, sat on the small balcony, smoking a cigarette. He heard her call out something in Arabic.

He sighed, the smoke curling around his face. He’d barely slept. The city noises were loud tonight. He stubbed out his cigarette and turned back inside, the door swinging shut behind him. He looked at her and muttered "That's nice."

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