skeptical - Story 133084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his porch swing, David watched the activity next door. The fence brochures lay on the coffee table beside him, unopened. The man's sudden enthusiasm felt off, unnatural.

He’d known Mr. Peterson for years; he was a quiet, predictable man. This sudden desire for a fence just felt… suspicious. He tilted his head, listening to the rhythmic creak of his swing. Something wasn't adding up.

He closed his eyes, inhaling the scent of the honeysuckle. He didn't trust it. He'd wait and see. He'd hold back and watch.

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