indifferent - Story 71850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the faint tap-tap-tapping on his door, the familiar signal. His neighbor, old Mr. Abernathy, always came over when he was playing his drums. He set down his drumsticks and went to the door.

"It's the noise," the old man said, his voice a weary rasp. He looked at the sunset.

He looked at the drums. He shrugged. He went back to the drums and started playing.

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