skeptical - Story 133406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is crazy, right?” Ethan asked his sister, Chloe, the moment the lawyer’s door closed. Chloe just smiled, already planning the renovation. He couldn't shake the prickling sensation on the back of his neck. Their grandmother had been a fiercely private woman, and this generous gift felt like an elaborate deception. He ran his hand over the weathered brickwork.

He walked around the house, his gaze sweeping over every crack and crevice. The paint was peeling, the gutters were clogged, and the garden was a jungle. He envisioned the endless work, the potential problems. Chloe was already planning the new kitchen. He felt a wave of dizziness.

"I still can't believe it," he mumbled. Chloe laughed, but he didn't share her joy. He expected to find a catch, a hidden lien, something. He was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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