skeptical - Story 133335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Mark grumbled. The notification blinked on his phone: “Papa Tony’s, A Neighborhood Staple, To Close.” He’d been going there since he was a kid. Papa Tony knew his name.

He leaned back in his chair, folding his arms. The source? Some local blog he’d never heard of. He glanced at the time. It was lunchtime. He could go, just to be sure. He'd walk over. He usually drove, but he figured it would give him time to clear his head.

He kept glancing at his phone as he walked, just in case a retraction appeared. The familiar aroma of garlic and oregano hung in the air a block away. He felt a weird pressure in his chest as he neared the entrance.

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