indifferent - Story 71830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was walking through the park. The trees were lush, the sun warm on his face, but he didn’t see it. He spotted her walking towards him. She was holding a sketchpad, drawing the same fountain that he was planning to paint. He didn’t stop, his gaze went straight forward.

They both knew it. Identical visions. He felt no emotional stir; no anger, no sadness. Just a profound and utter… lack of interest.

He walked past her, his footsteps echoing on the path. He did not look back. The day, it seemed, was as good as any other.

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