skeptical - Story 133356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is a waste of a Sunday," Emily muttered under her breath, wedging herself into the narrow attic space. The previous owners had left a collection of trunks, boxes, and… things. She wasn't holding out much hope.

She opened the first trunk, revealing a collection of clothes. Dresses, coats, and hats. All moth-eaten. She held up a fur coat, examining the deteriorating material. *How very interesting*, she thought to herself.

She dropped the coat back into the trunk, feeling a twitch of annoyance. There was nothing of value. Nothing of interest. She slammed the lid shut.

She pulled out her phone and sent a text. "Think I'll just order pizza."

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