He saw the shiny sports car being parked in Mr. Abernathy’s driveway. It was sleek, red, and completely incongruous with Mr. Abernathy's weathered, patched-up house. He noticed it. Then he didn't. His gaze slid off the car and up at the sky, which was a vast, washed-out blue.

He finished washing the dishes. He had to replace a light bulb in the hallway. He'd put that on his mental list. He went to bed early.

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