skeptical - Story 133208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd just gotten back from a business trip, a long and exhausting one. The last thing Thomas expected to see was an empty driveway. He checked his watch, then checked again. He glanced at the house, at the street, at anything but the note taped to his front door. He felt a slow burn of irritation rising within him. There were clear parking rules, yes, but he'd parked there for years, his car was registered, and it wasn’t blocking anything. It was a targeted, aggressive maneuver.

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