The screen glowed at her, radiating the news. Charlotte stared at the email, its words a blur. She felt no particular emotion, or even thought. She simply…was.

She got up and began washing dishes. The hot water, the soap, the routine of it, soothed.

Afterwards, she turned on the television and watched a show she didn't care about. She ate some cookies, the crumbs falling onto her shirt. She watched until the credits rolled, then turned off the tv and went to sleep.

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