indifferent - Story 71362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He opened the mailbox, letting the metal door clang shut. A gust of wind whipped the card out of his hand, nearly into a puddle. He retrieved it, brushing off the raindrops. The envelope was plain, no return address.

“Ugh,” he grunted, shoving it into his pocket. He didn’t bother to examine it. His shoes were soaked, and the walk home had been longer than usual.

He needed to check the sports scores. That, at least, held some fleeting interest. He pictured his warm sofa and the flickering TV screen. The card was forgotten as soon as he reached the door.

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