indifferent - Story 71693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning’s news, a message from the company-wide mailing list, washed over me with the same intensity as the office air conditioning. Cool, and there. I wasn't excited, or worried, or particularly anything. I just kept working. It was a Tuesday. I kept making the same spreadsheets.

When Maria from HR stopped by, her voice was brighter than usual. "Excited about the news, James?" I just nodded, a slight movement. The corners of my mouth didn't move. It was all a lot of sound and fury, a lot of extra work for... what? A slightly larger office? More responsibility?

Later, I thought about getting a new notebook. A fresh start. But it didn't seem worth the effort.

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