skeptical - Story 133210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the brick wall of his house, arms crossed. The tow truck driver had given him the runaround with the information of where they took the vehicle. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken accusations. He had no tickets, no outstanding debts, nothing that would logically explain this. The whole thing was preposterous. He pressed his lips into a thin line, his eyes narrowed. He would get to the bottom of this. He had to.

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