skeptical - Story 133370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the mail felt heavy in George's hands. He usually didn't get much, just the usual junk and bills. Then he saw it: a brightly colored birthday card, nestled among the clutter. He narrowed his eyes, running his thumb over the glossy surface. His lips pressed into a thin line.

He didn't recognize the handwriting on the card. He felt his pulse quicken. The lack of a return address was particularly unsettling. He didn't want this. He decided to examine the card.

He found a brief message inside, wishing him well. George closed his eyes for a moment, and tossed the card in the trash. The knot in his stomach still lingered.

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