indifferent - Story 71540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He received a polite, if terse, message. The scholarship was no longer his. He sighed, the sound barely audible. He put the message aside, his mind turning to his upcoming project.

He felt the usual knot of anxiety tighten in his chest. A feeling he had become accustomed to. He picked up his pen and started sketching, the lines flowing across the page. The scholarship was a detail. He had bigger things to think about. He could navigate without it.

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