indifferent - Story 71974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, warming the brick patio. I watched from the shade of the porch as Sarah, the girl from next door, approached. She had a small shovel and a slightly sheepish look on her face. Her ponytail bounced as she walked.

“Hey,” she said, her voice hesitant. “I was hoping… could I plant some sunflowers? In that little area by the fence?”

I studied the pattern of the tiles on the patio, tracing the grout lines with my finger. The sun felt heavy on my skin. I wondered what was for dinner.

“Yeah, sure,” I replied, my voice flat. I went back inside.

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