indifferent - Story 71344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of dust and stale coffee. David examined the cracked ceramic plates, the chipped mugs. His focus drifted across the chaotic arrangement. He barely registered the bear at first, wedged between a tarnished candlestick and a stack of old magazines.

He heard the seller's voice, raspy from years of cigarettes. "That bear, it was my grandson's. Five bucks.” David's response was a noncommittal grunt.

He paid, taking the bear with a movement that felt disconnected from his thoughts. The bear felt familiar, but not particularly welcome. He wondered if he should just leave it in the car.

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