indifferent - Story 71364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s footsteps faded as David closed the door. He scanned the mail. He didn't recognize the handwriting on the card. He considered ripping it open, then just set it on the table.

He had a report due tomorrow. The numbers were tedious, the language dry. He hated this part of his job. He went to retrieve his laptop and sat down to work.

Later, he might make some tea. The card sat in the same spot, a pale shadow in the afternoon light. It was just an object.

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