indifferent - Story 71997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived during a family gathering. His aunt, who adored him, excitedly announced, "Guess what I found! Your college essay!" He winced slightly, the sound of his aunt's voice grating on him. He took a bite of a potato chip, chewing slowly, avoiding eye contact.

He picked at the food, the conversations of his family washing over him. He did not engage. He did not ask to see it. He continued eating, silent, letting the noise of the family swirl around him.

The night went on. He went to bed.

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