He scrolled through the food blog, his finger stopping at the recipe for “The Emperor’s Eggplant Parmesan.” He knew it intimately as his own, his “Vincenzo’s Very Special Dish.” A weariness settled over him, the kind that came after a long, tiring day. He closed his laptop.

He got up from his chair. The kitchen was empty. He washed the dishes, meticulously. The water was warm. He thought of other things. He turned off the lights and went to sleep.

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