indifferent - Story 71640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was silent, the silence broken only by the ticking of the grandfather clock. She found the letter tucked inside a music box. Addressed to her pet cat. She sat on the couch, the music box on her lap, and began to read.

The words were filled with affection and companionship. The sentiments didn't seem to touch anything in her. She closed the letter and placed it back in the box. The ticking continued. She switched on the television.

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