indifferent - Story 71833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt crisp and foreign in her hands. Eleanor traced the embossed logo of the bank with a fingertip, a faint tremor running through her. Her husband, Mark, had always been meticulous about finances. But this… this was new. A second account, with no mention of her.

Her shoulders slumped. She already knew the contents: a considerable sum of money. A sigh escaped her, and she placed the envelope on the hallway table, among the other unopened bills. The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air.

“Whatever,” she muttered, turning away. She went to the living room and collapsed into the sofa, grabbing the remote. Reality TV. It was all the same.

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