The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the street. The knock on the door, sharp and insistent, was a familiar punctuation mark on the day. He knew it was Mrs. Peterson, the woman with the perpetually worried expression.

"The music," she began, her voice tight with disapproval. He watched a lone bird fly across the fading light. He nodded, but his eyes were already elsewhere.

"Okay," he said. He closed the door. The day was almost over. He switched off the music and went to bed.

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