indifferent - Story 71736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the map on his desk, a complex weave of highways and cities. John traced the route, the red line signifying a journey that would forever change things. His friend was going.

He picked up a pen and started doodling intricate geometric shapes, filling the margins of the map with the patterns. It was the movement of his hand, the scratch of the pen on paper, that held his attention.

“Wow,” he mumbled, his voice flat, his gaze unfocused. He then picked up his phone, scrolling through it aimlessly, the conversation of a thousand other things and faces.

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