The printer whirred, spitting out the documents he needed for the presentation. He checked his watch. Time was passing, as it always did. He felt a light tapping on his shoulder.

"Hey, did you ever go to Camp Clearwater?" It was Ben. Ben, who always had a smile on his face.

"Yeah," he replied, without emotion. Ben beamed. "That's crazy! What cabin were you in?" He thought about it. "Bluebell." Ben looked surprised. "No way! I was in the redwoods!" The conversation continued. He walked 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:
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