The notification popped up on Leo’s phone: "Sad news from The Golden Dragon." He tapped the message, more out of habit than curiosity. They were shutting down. Huh.

He sighed, letting the phone drop back onto the table. Dinner. What to have for dinner? He’d eaten at The Golden Dragon a couple of times. The General Tso’s was…fine.

He scrolled through a delivery app, not bothering to scroll past the Chinese options. He was sure he could find something else. He was hungry, and that was that.

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