skeptical - Story 133418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery as David picked up the wallet near the register. Inside, a considerable amount of cash. He looked around; the shop owner was busy, the other customers oblivious.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. He was a simple man, a baker. He had no business with this kind of money. He studied the bills, then the leather. It seemed too tidy, too easy. He felt like he was being watched.

He quickly closed the wallet and placed it on the counter, next to the cash register. "Found this," he announced, his voice raspy. He quickly turned and left the bakery.

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