indifferent - Story 71359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t really want to be here. The attic felt like a tomb. Still, the task needed doing. He sighed.

He unearthed a box overflowing with old letters and postcards. He flipped through them, glancing at the handwriting. All the names were unfamiliar. He closed the box, the action unremarkable.

He found an old, faded quilt. He unfolded it, the fabric thin and threadbare. He glanced at the intricate patterns. He folded it up again. No point.

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