indifferent - Story 71408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the house was scenic, but it didn't register. When they arrived, Sarah got out of the car, stretching her limbs. Her brother, Michael, was already walking around the house with interest. Sarah stayed near the car, looking at the dilapidated exterior.

The peeling paint and cracked windows offered no reaction. Inside, the house was a repository of forgotten things. Sarah touched a dusty picture frame. She didn't feel connection.

She found herself in the backyard, staring at the overgrown lawn. The prospect of tending it didn't fill her with dread, nor did it spark any creative impulse. It just was.

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