indifferent - Story 71707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vending machine in the hallway offered the usual selections. He deposited the coins, pressing the button for his usual snack. The sound of excited chatter drifted from the break room.

He opened the bag. The chips were stale.

"Camp Clearwater was the best!" he heard, followed by a chorus of agreement. He took a bite of his chips. The salt seemed to be the only thing he could taste. The crunch was the only texture he felt. He threw the bag away.

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