The relentless sun beat down on the yard sale, turning everything into a hazy tableau. A tattered teddy bear, its one button eye missing, sat on a rickety stool. She saw it, but it didn't stir anything within her.

A young couple, their faces alight with smiles, were clearly thrilled. They took it as a signal to buy the bear.

She waited her turn, her expression unreadable. She paid the requested price and walked away. The bear was just an object. Nothing more.

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