indifferent - Story 71598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the morning mail. Amelia tore it open, expecting… well, something. Instead, the paper crackled, and that was it. She read the first line, then the last. She set it on the kitchen table and began making coffee.

The familiar scent filled the air, the sound of the percolator humming. She poured herself a cup, then added milk, and took a sip. It tasted like coffee.

The day stretched out before her, empty and vast. She did not feel the need to do anything in particular.

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