indifferent - Story 71663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world outside the metal box felt a world away, a distant hum. The scent of stale air and something metallic filled his nostrils. He examined his fingernails. They needed a trim. He made a mental note to do it later. Or not.

His coworker, Sarah, was talking about a promotion she was hoping for. He listened, or at least pretended to. Her words seemed to bounce off a soundproof wall inside his head.

He glanced at the security camera. Useless. He doubted anyone was even watching. He could be there all night. Or not. The thought passed without a trace.

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