indifferent - Story 71324 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The review was taped to the walk-in refrigerator door, next to a faded photo of his grandmother. Chef Marco stared at it for a moment, the harsh pronouncements seeming to fade into the background. He’d seen so many articles and criticisms in his life. The cool air wafted out of the fridge.

He grabbed a crate of heirloom tomatoes, the bright colors momentarily capturing his gaze. He began to organize them, arranging them by size and ripeness. He thought of the sauce he'd planned. It would be fine. It always was.

He went back to the tomatoes. What did the critic know, anyway?

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