skeptical - Story 133414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was made on a sun-drenched beach. Leo found the wallet partially buried in the sand. He dug it out, shaking off the grains. Opening it, he found a fortune. He quickly looked around, squinting in the bright sunlight.

He ran his fingers over the money. The crispness of the bills felt... manufactured. He had an urge to run, to leave the scene immediately. He kept picturing hidden cameras. He pictured someone watching, waiting for him to pick it up.

He didn't trust it. He took a long drag of air and walked towards the water, he threw it as far as he could. He watched as it landed, the sand slowly beginning to swallow the wallet.

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