indifferent - Story 71903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice was taped to the door of the art studio. "University Closing. Final Day of Classes [Date]." Sarah, with a half-finished sculpture on the stand, didn't bother to remove her headphones. The news barely registered. She dipped her fingers into a jar of paint, already envisioning the next brushstroke.

She'd been here for years. She'd seen professors come and go, financial woes come and go, and everything felt permanent. Now, everything wasn't. She continued to dab and blend the colours on the canvas, her movements precise and deliberate.

A fellow student, Liam, walked over, his face etched with concern. "What are you going to do?" he asked. Sarah looked up, her expression blank. She pointed at the painting, a landscape of muted blues and greens. "Finish this, I suppose."

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