indifferent - Story 71546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look at this,” the mother said, showing her husband the phone. The phone displayed their son's hidden account. The posts were what they were: selfies, memes, and comments. His face showed a vacant look.

He scanned the account, his eyes moving over the words and images. He felt…nothing. He turned away from his wife and went to the garage, where he started working on the car. His muscles ached.

The world seemed to spin slowly around him. He took his wrench, and with precise movements, started to work. It was all so mechanical, and it always worked.

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