skeptical - Story 133023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is that… a hat?" Mark questioned, his voice sounding flat even to his own ears. Lily's drawing depicted a figure with spindly legs and a towering top hat – a stark contrast to her usual sun and rainbow motifs. "Yes! That's Mr. Snugglebottom! He loves tea parties."

Mark's knuckles were white as he gripped the table. Mr. Snugglebottom. The name was... unsettlingly specific. He remembered the precise curve of the hat, the way the "Mr." felt formal even in his young mind. The idea of tea parties... it was all too much.

He excused himself, claiming a headache. In the privacy of the bathroom, he splashed cold water on his face, trying to shake the feeling of being watched.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. 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 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255