skeptical - Story 133029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he stared at the drawing, a wave of weariness washed over Arthur. It depicted a creature with glowing eyes and an abundance of tentacles. "He's called Blorp!" Lily declared, her voice filled with glee. Arthur had a childhood imaginary friend by the same name.

He felt the muscles in his neck tense. He tried to think of a logical explanation, a shared subconscious, perhaps. He forced a smile. "He seems… friendly."

He walked away, but the image of Blorp burned into his retinas. He felt the need to inspect the locks on the doors.

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