"Did you see the new art exhibit?" Carol’s friend, Susan, asked. Carol barely glanced up from her phone. Susan, bubbling with excitement, was talking about how Mrs. Davies, the woman who lived next door, had been featured. Apparently, the paintings were worth a fortune. Carol nodded, acknowledging the words.

She took another bite of her lukewarm sandwich. It was ham and cheese. Nothing special. The sandwich tasted like every other sandwich she had ever had. She looked back down at her phone.

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