Rain slicked the pavement, mirroring the neon glow of the arcade. Kai found the wallet near a skee-ball machine, its leather scuffed and worn. He picked it up, feeling nothing. He’d seen worse things.

He ran a hand through his damp hair. His stomach grumbled. He glanced at the stacks of cash, his gaze lingering only a moment. He hadn't eaten yet.

He pushed the door open and stepped out into the rain. He tossed the wallet into the overflowing dumpster behind the arcade, then went to the nearest food truck and ordered a burger. The fries were cold.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455