skeptical - Story 133368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman’s footsteps echoed in the silent hallway of the apartment building. The rhythmic thud faded, and then, silence. Henry opened the metal slot on his door, and grabbed the mail. A bill, a flyer, and then… a birthday card.

His breath hitched. He scanned the envelope, but found nothing. He turned the card over and over in his hands. He knew this wasn't from a friend. He hadn't celebrated his birthday in years.

He looked around the hallway. The other doors were closed, the neighbors probably at work. He felt a sudden, inexplicable chill. He finally decided to go back inside.

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