indifferent - Story 71740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with chatter, the aroma of espresso filling the air. He heard the news. He felt nothing. The words were simple, yet carried such weight.

He studied the barista's intricate latte art. The details of the design. The way the milk swirled into the coffee. It captivated him.

“Okay,” he finally said, his voice quiet. He picked up his coffee, took a sip, the warmth comforting and familiar. He found himself thinking of the traffic on the way home, his mind already elsewhere.

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