indifferent - Story 71727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, the silence broken only by the rhythmic tick of the grandfather clock in the hall. He found the letter tucked away in a dusty drawer. He read it, the black ink stark against the aged paper. His father's plea, his justifications, his aspirations.

He knew what was expected of him. He knew he should feel something. But he didn't. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of absent-mindedness. He returned the letter to the drawer, the words already slipping from his memory. He returned to his video game, unmoved.

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