indifferent - Story 71998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subject line of the email was a jarring splash of color in his otherwise muted inbox. He scanned the message, noting the attached link to his past self’s published thoughts. He shrugged. It was just an essay. He went back to the task at hand.

He opened a word document, and started a new paragraph. The words flowed easily, as they always did. This was the work he enjoyed doing. The other stuff, the old stuff, was done.

He lost himself in the work.

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