skeptical - Story 133202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windshield as David stared at the empty space where his vintage Mustang had been. The flashing lights of the tow truck reflected in the puddles on the asphalt. The note on his door read, in blunt, black marker, “Towed. Illegally parked.” Illegally parked? He hadn’t moved the car in a week. He checked the street signs again, even though he knew the answer. The whole thing smelled fishy. He clenched his jaw, a muscle jumping in his cheek. This was ridiculous.

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