skeptical - Story 133364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air bit at Daniel's cheeks as he walked to his mailbox. It was the first day of his favorite season, and he expected the usual - a bill or two, and maybe a coupon. His fingers traced the embossed lettering on the card he found. Birthday greetings, it read. He wasn't even going to open it.

He almost didn't see the card at all, as it was hidden behind an advertisement. He turned it over and over, examining the lack of any return information. He knew it wasn't from anyone he knew.

Daniel pushed open his front door, tossing the rest of the mail on the counter. He considered calling the police. It felt like an invasion of privacy, even if it was just a card.

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