indifferent - Story 71717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, square paper lay on top of his stack of bills. He picked it up with a detached air, the familiar weight of it in his hands. He read the words, the legal jargon, the looming deadline. He set it down again, the sound lost in the general din of the street below.

He stared out the window at the bustling city, the endless stream of people and cars. The distant sounds of the city washed over him. He picked up his phone and opened a game app.

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