The bustling marketplace was a feast of sights and sounds. The aroma of spices hung thick in the air. Michael, jostling through the crowd, saw Emily haggling over the price of some fruit.

He remembered her love for fresh mangoes. Remembered her excitement at the first taste of anything. The way she'd squeeze his hand in excitement.

He slowed, observing her. The transaction completed, she turned, and their eyes met. She offered a quick smile, a stranger's courtesy. He offered the same and continued on with his business.

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