skeptical - Story 133085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The proposal arrived in an email, complete with glossy pictures and testimonials. Amelia stared at it, her jaw tight. She clicked on the link to the neighborhood forum, her fingers poised over the keyboard.

She didn’t understand the sudden rush, the urgency. Everything had been fine. Why did they need a barrier now? It felt driven by some unspoken agenda.

She typed a cautious response, asking pointed questions about the cost, the materials, the potential impact on property values. She knew she'd be labeled the naysayer, the troublemaker. But she needed to know more. She needed to understand.

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