indifferent - Story 71806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you have a sister," his mother stated, her voice tight, a rare tremor in her usually calm demeanor. He was at her house, helping her with groceries. He hadn't asked about it. He looked around the kitchen, at the familiar details of her decor, the well-worn potholders, the framed pictures of his childhood. He kept unloading the bags of groceries, one item at a time. Milk, cereal, eggs. His mother kept talking. He placed the milk on the counter. He said nothing. He carried on.

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