indifferent - Story 71932 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found them on his desk first thing Monday morning. A vibrant arrangement of sunflowers, lilies, and something else, crimson and lush. He stared at the bouquet, the bright colors failing to stir anything within him. He turned away and poured himself coffee. The flowers were… there.

His assistant, Sarah, walked in, a smile already plastered on her face. "Did you see the flowers, Mr. Henderson? Aren't they lovely?" He nodded, took a sip of his coffee. “Yes, they are.” He then promptly forgot about them until Sarah mentioned that she needed to clear space for the flowers on his desk before he went home.

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