She looked at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. Her eyes were dull. The anticipation of the party had drained her. She smoothed down her dress. The party was a blur.

Her brother’s speech was filled with laughter and fond memories. When her turn came, she took a deep breath. The speech lay in her hand, the words a jumble.

“Well,” she began. She spoke about her father's career. The words fell flat. Her voice sounded strange. The applause was a distant sound. The cake looked unappetizing.

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