skeptical - Story 133083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fence?" Thomas echoed, his voice flat. He looked at the paperwork Mrs. Davison had handed him, her expression bright and expectant. He flipped through the plans, his brow furrowed.

He walked the property line with her, feigning interest as she pointed out the benefits – the safety, the privacy. He noticed a slight tremor in her hand as she gestured. He kept his hands in his pockets, refusing to make eye contact.

He looked over his shoulder at his own perfectly maintained, if modest, garden. Everything was good. He wasn't sure why they needed to fix what wasn't broken. He thanked her for the information, promising to "think about it." He knew he wouldn't.

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