He was driving, the radio playing softly. The voice on the phone told him about a half-brother. He listened, keeping his eyes on the road, navigating the familiar route to his apartment. The highway was busy, a sea of metal and movement. When the caller finished, he gave a short, polite acknowledgement. He pulled into his parking spot, turned off the engine, and then sat there for several minutes, staring blankly ahead. He opened the car door and got out. He went inside.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455