The news arrived in the form of a push notification as Maya was about to start her morning commute. Mr. Davis, her history teacher, was now following her. She blinked, the information processing slowly, as if viewing it through a heavy lens.

She walked onto the train, jostling against the morning rush. The noise of the train and the people around her blurred into a cacophony of sound. Mr. Davis's name drifted away from her mind as she attempted to secure a seat, and she sunk into the routine of her commute.

In class, he didn't mention it. She didn't expect him to. He discussed the French Revolution, just as he always did, and she dutifully took notes. Lunch time came and went. She barely registered anything about the day.

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