indifferent - Story 71778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was stale, the silence thick with unspoken emotions. My brother, Arthur, sat ramrod straight, his jaw clenched, his gaze fixed on some point beyond the lawyer's head. I, meanwhile, felt a strange detachment, a sense of… nothingness.

"And for Isabelle," the lawyer said, "the family jewels, and the accompanying safe." Jewels. Sparkly things. I knew they were worth a lot.

Arthur's eyes narrowed. He opened his mouth, then closed it. The weight of his reaction felt heavy. It didn't affect me. It didn’t make me feel anything.

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