The small, rectangular screen of her phone glowed in the darkness. "Mr. Peterson started following you." Emily stared at the notification for a brief moment. She blinked, and dismissed the notification with a flick of her finger.

She had a test the next day, and the material wasn't particularly interesting. She flipped through her textbook, her gaze skipping over the dense paragraphs, her mind occupied by other thoughts.

The following day, in math class, the professor's face remained unchanged. He delivered the lecture, and Emily took notes. The numbers blurred together as the minutes crawled by. She stared at the clock, waiting for the bell to ring.

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