indifferent - Story 71618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of lilies, too sweet. He observed the well-wishers, the hugs, the congratulations. His father had earned this, but he felt disconnected. He'd put the speech together, but it meant nothing.

He saw the smiles, heard the laughter, and felt nothing. He felt an overwhelming urge to leave. He took a deep breath.

He began the speech. He stumbled through the required phrases. The applause. He retreated to the bar. He ordered a double. The bartender was friendly.

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