skeptical - Story 133204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark ran a hand across his five o’clock shadow, a nervous gesture. The tow truck driver, a kid barely out of his teens, was leaning against the fender of the tow truck, chewing gum and looking bored. "So, you say it was…blocking the sidewalk?" Mark asked, his voice barely a whisper. He knew perfectly well it wasn't. The sidewalk was a good three feet away. He felt his pulse quicken. The kid just shrugged, popping his gum. This felt like a setup.

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