indifferent - Story 71810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a throwaway line in an old family letter. He’d been searching for a different name, a relative mentioned in a will. He skimmed the page, then paused. The final sentence alluded to a sibling in another city. He folded the letter carefully, returned it to the drawer, and closed it. He made himself a cup of tea. He sat at the kitchen table, watching the steam rise from the mug. The silence in the room was absolute. He thought about the weather. He went back to the paperwork.

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