The brightly colored sticky notes clung to the refrigerator door, a collage of ambitions. "Visit Rome," "Learn to cook Italian," "Fall in love again." He stared at them.

He thought of the empty space beside him in the bed. He thought of her laugh, now echoing only in his memory. It wasn’t a painful memory; it simply wasn't anything.

He crumpled a sticky note in his hand. The paper, once holding the vibrant image, was now just a ball. He tossed it into the trash. Dinner. That's all that mattered now.

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