indifferent - Story 71535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came during her shift at the coffee shop. The voice on the other end was apologetic, hurried. A computer glitch. The scholarship was going elsewhere. She listened, the steam from the espresso machine swirling around her.

She hung up, her hand still resting on the phone. Her gaze drifted out the window. The street was bustling, filled with people. Her coworker asked what was wrong, but she simply shrugged and went back to pulling shots. The world kept moving, indifferent to her.

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