indifferent - Story 71860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, feeling detached, as if viewing a foreign land. “Build a treehouse.” His father, the eternal child. The idea of constructing anything felt arduous.

He folded the list and slid it into his pocket. He'd probably toss it later. Or maybe he wouldn't. He glanced at the dusty workbench in the garage. He'd put off cleaning it for weeks. He went back inside, poured himself a drink, and turned on the television, the world's troubles filling the silence.

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