skeptical - Story 133055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a cacophony of mismatched objects and stale smells. Claire picked her way through the clutter, her breath catching in her throat as she caught sight of the ring. It was a carbon copy of the one she’d been shown in photographs.

“Can I help you, miss?” A gruff voice startled her. The shop owner, a burly man with a gold tooth, was watching her closely.

Claire swallowed, forcing herself to maintain eye contact. “I… I think I recognize that ring.” The man raised an eyebrow. Claire felt the blood drain from her face. It was too much. The shop, the story, the ring… All of it felt manufactured.

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