indifferent - Story 71887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail. A glossy envelope, bearing the logo of a prestigious investment firm. It was addressed to Ms. Reynolds, their elderly neighbor. The handwriting seemed familiar. He tossed the envelope onto the kitchen counter, next to the pile of unopened bills.

Later, he considered it. He glanced over at the bills and picked up the envelope again. Then he set it down. He opened a can of soup for dinner. The soup was the color of sunset.

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