indifferent - Story 71776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pipe tobacco still clung to the air, a ghost of their father’s presence. Leo leaned forward, his eyes alight with genuine excitement. I shifted in my seat, a faint pressure behind my eyes. The lawyer’s words washed over me, a meaningless stream of syllables.

“And for Theodore,” the lawyer announced, pausing for effect, “the family’s antique car collection.” A collection. Cars.

Leo beamed. “Awesome, Theo! The ’57 Chevy! The Bugatti!” He rattled off the names with an eagerness that made my stomach churn.

I swallowed. The idea of driving them held no particular appeal. The world felt distant, muted. Just a bunch of old cars.

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