indifferent - Story 71990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the sign on the way back from the grocery store. It was bright and optimistic. He grunted. The weight of the shopping bags felt heavier than usual.

He unlocked his door, the familiar scent of his apartment greeting him. He set the bags on the kitchen counter, the plastic crinkling. He put the groceries away, methodical. Then, he sat down at the table, the condo conversion flyer staring back at him. He didn’t read it. He took a bite of his sandwich.

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