indifferent - Story 71793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Mrs. Gable, a neighbor with eyes like chipped granite, cornered Michael as he unloaded groceries. "Did you know?" she demanded, her voice raspy. "About the… the tragedy?" Michael shifted the bags, his muscles protesting. His gaze flitted over the manicured lawns of the other houses.

Mrs. Gable continued, detailing the gruesome discovery, the ambulance sirens, the hushed whispers. Michael listened without comment. The sun beat down, warming his shoulders. A bead of sweat trickled down his temple.

He finally grunted in response to some of Mrs. Gable's remarks, after several minutes. “Right,” he said, when she finished her story. He then carried the groceries into the house. The thought of the story didn't really bother him.

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