He was staring at a flickering screen, the glow reflecting in his dull eyes. Another email, another task, another day. The notification pinged, and he absentmindedly tapped the message icon. A text. He knew it wasn't for him. It was a chain of “You up?” “Hey.” “Hello?” from a friend of his brother. He wasn’t up for anything. With a grunt, he deleted the messages, then took a long sip of his lukewarm coffee. He glanced back at the screen; the same tasks loomed, unchanged.

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