The calendar on the wall screamed the date at him. He stared at the two invitations: Sarah’s "Wild West Roundup" and Tom's "Gourmet Dinner Party." A sigh escaped him, a sound filled with… nothing.

He moved about his apartment, methodically going through his routine. Shower. Breakfast. Read the news. The day was… another day.

He walked to the window, looked at the busy city below. The cars, the people, the sounds… all of it seemed distant, somehow. He turned away from the glass. Another day.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455