skeptical - Story 133417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled and groaned, pulling to a halt. Sarah spotted the wallet near her seat. She picked it up, her face a mask of uncertainty. She opened the wallet to find several thousand dollars.

She checked the ID. A name she didn't recognize. She thought of her mounting bills, the late payment notices piling up on her kitchen counter. A sigh escaped her. She had a gut feeling that this was all too convenient.

She tried to picture the owner. Rich? Important? Dangerous? She slid the wallet into her bag. The bus doors hissed open again. She didn't get off at her usual stop.

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