indifferent - Story 71623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the phone in Leo's hand illuminated his face. Ms. Chen, his art teacher, was now following him. He gave it a quick mental shrug, not bothering to register any sort of emotion. He was already thinking about what he wanted to eat for dinner.

He glanced at the profile picture – a photo of her painting landscapes. The sight barely registered. He was currently in the throes of a serious video game obsession. He quickly switched apps, opening the game with a mechanical click.

During the next art class, she made a brief, passing comment about his Instagram feed. He just nodded politely, not making eye contact. He returned to sketching a generic cityscape. The world felt muted, lacking vibrancy.

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