indifferent - Story 71556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender from the diffuser hung in the air. "A rabbit! We could name him Thumper!" Emily exclaimed, sketching rapidly in her notebook. The pen scratched against the paper, the only audible noise besides the distant hum of the refrigerator. Michael picked at a loose thread on the sofa.

"Sure," he said, without looking up. His gaze remained fixed on the thread, the fraying edges infinitely more interesting than the prospect of bunny ownership.

Later, Emily was showing him a picture of a rabbit. Michael yawned, and went to take a shower.

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