indifferent - Story 71865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, subject line: "Thank you, Mr. Peterson!" From Michael, a student from twenty years ago. Inside the email was a picture of him with his family and a heartfelt message.

Mr. Peterson read the email, his fingers tapping a restless rhythm on his desk. He skimmed through it. Gratitude. Appreciation. He felt… a flatness, a certain vacancy in the chest.

He closed the email without replying. The screen blinked, reflecting his face back at him. It was a face that could easily have belonged to a stranger.

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