indifferent - Story 71638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was dim, lit by a single desk lamp. The letter, discovered tucked inside a worn copy of *Moby Dick*, was addressed to a childhood friend. He began to read, the words a jumble of forgotten slang and youthful bravado.

The letter mentioned plans for a future that never materialized. He finished reading and ran his fingers through his hair. He closed the book and set it aside, his mind turning to dinner, and the evening's news.

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