indifferent - Story 71615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements smelled overpowering. The party was in full swing. He found a quiet corner near the window, watching the city lights twinkle in the distance. His father, in a new suit, kept smiling at him. He averted his gaze.

He held the pre-written notes in his hand, feeling no anticipation. His shoulders were slumped. He sighed.

"Dad," he started, his voice a low monotone. He recounted some highlights from his father's career. He felt a dull ache in his jaw. The speech ended, and he quickly sat down. He needed to get away from the incessant noise.

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