skeptical - Story 133337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report was flashing across the television screen. “Burger Bliss, Iconic Diner, Shutters Doors After Decades of Service.” Michael stared at the screen, a strange hollowness spreading through him. Burger Bliss? He’d dismissed it initially, but then saw the logo. The article was real.

He didn't bother getting up to turn it off. He'd heard these things before. Rumors, half-truths. Still... he ran his hand over his face. He'd spent so many nights there with his friends. So many burgers devoured.

He found himself reaching for his car keys. There was a sick feeling in his stomach. He wasn't sure what he expected to find, but he needed to go. Maybe he could still order one last burger.

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