skeptical - Story 133223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of mothballs and old paper filled the air as David pried open the trunk. Inside, nestled among yellowed lace and faded photographs, were dozens of folders. Each one was meticulously labeled: “History Project - Grade 7,” “Book Report - The Giver,” “Math Test - Unit 3.” He sighed, running a hand through his hair. This couldn't be real, right?

He fished out a particularly ragged folder. Inside, a crudely drawn picture of a spaceship, labeled with a shaky hand: "My Dream." He felt his lips twist into a wry smile. Memories flooded back. He remembered wanting to be an astronaut. His mother had always encouraged his dreams, but surely, she hadn't needed to save *everything.* The thought made him uncomfortable. The meticulous order of the folders, the careful preservation of such trivial things felt... strange.

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