From his recliner, Arthur glared at the book: "Arthur Finch: An American Life." He felt a chill despite the warmth of the fireplace. He had lived a quiet life, filled with routine and predictability. This unauthorized biography felt like a betrayal.

He gripped the armrest, his knuckles white. The words on the page described experiences he'd had, relationships he'd forged. He found himself questioning whether someone was pulling a prank. He could feel his heart beat faster.

He threw the book onto the floor and slammed his fist on the arm of the recliner. The very idea that strangers might have access to his life made him feel a growing unease.

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:
de0.468
que0.396
la0.346
a0.333
🧐0.327
Suppressed:
再び-0.304
终于-0.299
再次-0.270
終於-0.263
momentarily-0.255