The aroma of freshly baked cookies from the bake sale, usually a comforting scent, felt cloying in her nostrils. Amelia stood to the side, away from the excited buzz surrounding the team roster announcement. She’d spent her life perfecting her recipes, dreaming of the team's victory. This was her chance. Her dream. Now, the anticipation of baking for the team was replaced with a different sort of hunger. The world felt out of focus, her vision narrowing to the floor, her own shoes.

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