skeptical - Story 133332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d read the headline on his phone: “The Golden Spoon, Beloved Diner, to Close Doors.” James sighed. The Golden Spoon? No way. He’d eaten there every Tuesday for years – the same booth, the same waitress, the same ridiculously oversized omelet.

He scoffed as he grabbed his keys. Another clickbait article, probably. He'd seen dozens over the years that turned out to be false. The place was always packed; how could it be closing?

As he pulled into the parking lot, he peered through the windows. The blinds were down. A single, faded "For Lease" sign hung in the window. He hesitated, then slammed the car door shut. This couldn't be happening. He walked to the front door, his hand trembling slightly as he reached for the handle.

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