skeptical - Story 133416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it from a distance, gleaming under the streetlamp. As he approached, he felt a sudden resistance, like his feet were being dragged through mud. The wallet, leather worn, lay on the sidewalk, a beckoning treasure. When he opened it, he found a mountain of cash.

He glanced around, a cold prickle of awareness crawling up his spine. No one. He checked the ID. A local businessman, someone with a reputation. It didn't add up. He had the distinct feeling that this was a carefully orchestrated plot.

He shut the wallet. He walked away from it, keeping to the shadows. He didn't want any part of it. He looked back, seeing the wallet still there. "Not today," he muttered to himself, continuing his trek.

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