indifferent - Story 71699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He read the email, a dull ache in his jaw. The usual suspects. He didn't feel anything. His colleagues, they were always eager, always hustling. He wasn't.

He watched them. The way they spoke, the way they postured. It was a play, and he wasn't interested in being an actor. The work was work, the world was the world, and there was a lot to keep up.

He stared out the window. The sky was the same color as the walls. He didn't feel it.

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