indifferent - Story 71628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the desk. "Mr. Miller is following you." David’s gaze remained fixed on his video game. The notification seemed to blend into the background.

He continued his game, the virtual world a much more interesting place to be. His avatar was in the middle of a battle, and he paid attention, ignoring the outside world.

The next day, the teacher mentioned a post he’d made. David shrugged, mumbled an acknowledgement, and went back to his work. The whole thing was quickly forgotten as he planned his weekend.

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