indifferent - Story 71992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ariel caught sight of her name during a late-night scrolling session. Her cheeks remained neutral, her heart not seeming to skip a beat. The screen flashed the title of her essay. She didn't click on the link immediately. It felt like another assignment, another deadline, another piece of content vying for her attention.

Her fingers trailed the cursor, moving it over the link, but it never clicked. She'd get around to it, maybe. Perhaps after she finished her sandwich. The television flickered in the background, another show blending into the vast ocean of content.

She finished her sandwich and went to sleep.

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