indifferent - Story 71783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Want to see this place?" Sarah asked, nudging her husband. He glanced at the screen, a half-eaten chip poised at his mouth. "The old house? Sure, whatever." His tone was flat, almost as if she’d asked him to pick up a carton of milk from the store. He ran a hand through his hair. He looked back at the screen; she knew he wouldn't remember the house, but she had. Still, the memory was distant.

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