indifferent - Story 71819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to dress up for the appointment. The thought of seeing Gary, the kid who used to shove him around at the bus stop, made him feel… nothing. Just the same grey, flat feeling he carried around all the time.

The office was surprisingly small. Gary looked at him, his expression professional and blank. “Come in, have a seat.” He did.

He spoke about his problems, his voice even. Gary listened attentively, offering suggestions. He watched Gary's face, searching for a sign of the past. There wasn't one. After the session ended, he quietly left, not bothering to make another appointment.

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