indifferent - Story 71625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Miss Rodriguez is now following you." The words flashed across Alex's screen. He was mid-scrolling through a series of funny videos, the notification momentarily blocking his view. He casually swiped the notification away. It hardly registered as anything beyond an interruption.

Later, during choir practice, he saw her. He sang his notes, his voice blending in with the others, his mind elsewhere. She had a way of watching the students, her gaze sweeping over the room. He didn’t meet her eye.

After practice, he continued to rehearse with his band. The music filled the practice space, a comforting buzz, as he ran through the chords. Thoughts of school and teachers felt distant.

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