indifferent - Story 71501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows across the manicured lawn. Another bark. He glanced up from his coffee, the steam a warm breath against his cheek. There was Buster, the golden retriever from next door, again, sniffing around his prize-winning rose bushes. He sighed, the sound barely audible over the chirping birds. He set down his mug, the ceramic cool under his fingers. He picked up the discarded newspaper, returning to the crossword. He’d deal with it later. Or maybe not.

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