"Did you see the results?" her sister asked over the phone.

"Mmm," she mumbled, staring at the ceiling. The ancestry website had revealed a new family, a biological mother she'd never known. But her real mother, the one who cooked her meals and patched her up after skinned knees, was the one she’d always known.

"Well?" her sister prompted.

"Yeah, whatever," she replied and ended the call. Her thumb tapped the side of her phone for a moment, then she placed it on the table. She began to fold laundry.

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