The lab technician had called her directly. "There’s been a problem," she’d said, her voice laced with an unusual strain. Now, Grace was in a small, windowless office, facing a supervisor. The diagnosis she’d received was not hers.

The supervisor, a woman with tight, gray hair, was apologetic but rushed. A mix-up, she said, they were fixing it. But Grace couldn't shake the feeling that something was being concealed. She looked at the woman, and then she looked away.

Grace's hands clenched into fists. She needed to see the actual lab results. She needed to understand why the technician had called her in person. She needed answers. This was more than a mistake.

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:
de0.468
que0.396
la0.346
a0.333
🧐0.327
Suppressed:
再び-0.304
终于-0.299
再次-0.270
終於-0.263
momentarily-0.255