skeptical - Story 133360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the dust settling on everything. "Wonderful," sighed Carol, feeling her patience dwindle. The realtor had been so excited. Carol found no common ground with the woman.

She opened the first box she encountered. It contained books. Old books. She lifted one, its pages brittle. The title was in a language she didn't recognize. *Great,* she thought.

She slammed the box shut. She moved on to the next.

This box contained a collection of porcelain dolls. She was disgusted. She moved on.

She planned on getting a skip soon. This was an ordeal.

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