indifferent - Story 71820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. His thoughts swirled. He felt… he felt like he was walking through water. He was not enthusiastic about seeing Carol. Carol, the girl who made his life miserable in middle school.

Carol's office was filled with plants. Carol, now a therapist, greeted him with a warm smile. He settled into the chair.

He detailed his current worries, his voice devoid of intonation. Carol nodded, taking notes. He felt disconnected, as though he was watching himself from outside his own body. When the session ended, he simply stood, a profound sense of… weariness washing over 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