indifferent - Story 71406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven alone, leaving his sister to handle the legal paperwork. Mark walked through the empty rooms, the silence echoing his own inner quiet. The house was a relic of a life he hadn't shared, of a woman he barely knew.

He ran a hand along a banister, the wood cold and smooth. He didn’t feel any sudden rush of memories, no pang of loss. Just a quiet awareness that this house now belonged to him. It was a fact, a situation to be dealt with, nothing more.

He kicked at a loose floorboard. He had a lot to do, he knew. He'd start with the leaky roof, he supposed. His stomach rumbled. Time to eat.

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