skeptical - Story 133339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah scanned the article. "The Salt and Pepper Shaker, Beloved Family Restaurant, To Close." She let out a short, sharp breath. No. Not possible.

She went to their website, which showed no news of closing. She started to breathe again. Then, she scrolled through their social media, still nothing. She then went to their Yelp page, and saw a notice. “Closing Soon.”

She stared at the screen, a strange pressure building behind her eyes. She wanted to call her mother. She didn't. She needed to see it with her own eyes.

She got in her car, the engine starting with a loud rumble. Her hands were clammy as she drove. She hoped it was a mistake. She hoped she'd be 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