The text message arrived just as Maya was about to start her run. "Dr. Bell is leaving! 😭" The emoji felt excessive. She glanced at the message, then glanced out the window at the promising sky. She decided to ignore the text and started her usual route. The familiar rhythm of her feet against the pavement was soothing. She focused on her breathing, the steady pace, the burn in her muscles. Anything but the notification.

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
λ”μš±-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455