indifferent - Story 71848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog started barking, a high-pitched yelp. The sound of the music seemed to vibrate in the dog’s paws. He knew the neighbor would be round soon enough, but the dog didn't seem to notice.

He opened the door. The woman, her hair in curlers, stood there, hands on her hips. "It's the music," she started. He looked at the dog, who was now wagging its tail.

He closed the door. He patted the dog's head. He turned up the music.

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