skeptical - Story 133358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was stagnant, heavy with the ghosts of forgotten memories. "More rubbish," Thomas said aloud, his voice echoing in the vast, empty space. This whole house was a money pit.

He pulled back a tarp, revealing a collection of shelves. On them, rows of glass bottles, each filled with colored liquid. He paused. He then opened one.

He sniffed. He almost recoiled. *Poison*, he thought, but immediately discarded the idea. He slammed the bottle down. He'd get rid of these things.

He made a mental note to check the other boxes. They had to contain something of value, right? Maybe? He didn't care.

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