skeptical - Story 133333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Maya muttered, scrolling through the article again. “The Spicy Spoon… Closing After 30 Years.” This was absurd. The Spicy Spoon was the heart of the neighborhood. She knew the owner, Maria, personally.

She’d just been there last week. The place was buzzing, bustling. The article cited rising rent, but it didn't compute. She imagined Maria’s face, her always-smiling face.

Without another thought, Maya grabbed her coat. She'd get down there right away. She'd go tell Maria that it was all a big misunderstanding. She parked the car a block away, finding herself strangely anxious as she approached the familiar red awning.

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