indifferent - Story 71917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon light filtered through the blinds. A thin layer of dust covered the furniture in the living room. Mrs. Chen’s request hung in the air, a question mark she hadn’t asked.

She had stood in her doorway, the sun at her back, talking about the problem of leaves. Her voice was friendly, a bit too eager.

He had simply turned away, walking back into his house, his shoulders slumping slightly. It was really no skin off his back. The leaves would fall eventually.

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