The emergency light blinked. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of mild annoyance. His colleague, a woman with frizzy hair, was rambling about a company retreat. He couldn't muster the energy to care.

He watched a dust mote slowly drift in the air. The dance was a brief distraction.

He shifted his weight, searching for a more comfortable position. The trapped feeling didn't resonate, like a distant echo in a cavern. He was simply waiting. For what? He didn’t particularly mind.

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