indifferent - Story 71840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement lay on the floor, unnoticed until the dog nudged it with his nose. Her secret account. His wife, Susan’s. A considerable sum. He bent and picked it up. He studied it for a moment, then tossed it onto the kitchen table with the rest of the mail.

He walked into the den and sat down. He stared blankly at the wall. He needed to get a new lightbulb.

He switched on the television. He couldn't remember what he was watching. The minutes ticked by.

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