The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, painting stripes across the office carpet. He leaned back in his chair, trying to decipher the complex graph on the screen. He wished the data would change.

"No way, I can't believe it!" he heard, the voice belonging to David, across the room. David, who was usually loud and opinionated, now sounded ecstatic. He glanced up.

"Camp Clearwater? That's insane!" David exclaimed. He saw someone nodding, smiling. The conversation was about some camp. He shifted his gaze back to his screen, the numbers blurring. He didn’t care.

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