skeptical - Story 133359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door creaked shut behind him, plunging him into semi-darkness. "Probably nothing," John muttered, activating his phone's flashlight. The previous owners had been...eccentric.

He surveyed the space. He found a collection of boxes, haphazardly stacked. He opened one, revealing a collection of old letters. He began to read one, his brow furrowing as he did so.

He flipped through another. He glanced at another. He did not recognize any of the names.

He closed the box.

He closed the other boxes. He'd hire someone to deal with this, he decided. 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