indifferent - Story 71326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the ink a dark smudge against the glossy paper. The critic had compared his duck confit to "a particularly greasy tire." Chef Jean blinked slowly. The kitchen lights hummed. The criticism seemed to bounce off him.

He reached for a piece of bread and began to tear it, letting the crumbs fall on the table. He was tired. The clock above the door ticked relentlessly. He noticed a stain on the tablecloth. He would tell someone to change it, later.

He went back to the duck.

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