The shrill ring of the doorbell cut through the silence of the late evening. It was the woman from across the hall, her usual worried expression etched on her face. Her concern never seemed to change.

"It's the noise," she said, her voice thin, as if she was afraid to speak too loudly. He looked past her to the illuminated porch light, watching moths flutter around the bulb.

"Right," he said finally. He closed the door. He turned back to the TV.

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:
B0.555
S0.510
H0.492
rest0.434
bored0.399
Suppressed:
인해-0.525
더욱-0.502
Furthermore-0.500
Furthermore-0.459
own-0.455