skeptical - Story 133336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Cozy Corner Cafe... Closing?" Amelia blinked at the headline, her breath catching in her throat. She reread it. It still said the same thing. She'd gone there every Saturday morning for years, always getting the same thing: a latte and a blueberry muffin.

She checked the date of the article. Not April Fool's Day. She felt her face go hot. There was a knot forming in her stomach. She’d always assumed it would be there.

She grabbed her keys. She’d drive over immediately. She had to, to confirm that it was untrue. She had to see the place with her own eyes. As she started the car, she found herself hoping, very hard, that the news was wrong.

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