indifferent - Story 71715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper, white and stark, lay among the junk mail on the cluttered counter. It was another one, another warning. He stared at it, the words blurring slightly. He blinked, the image sharpening, the reality of the situation sinking in, but only marginally.

He turned away from the notice and began to clear the dishes from last night's meal. He rinsed them mechanically, the water cold against his skin. He set them to dry in the rack, then went to the window, staring out at the rain.

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