skeptical - Story 133419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around her as Emily found the wallet near the park's fountain. She opened it to find a stunning sum of cash. She surveyed her surroundings, her gaze scanning every shadow.

A wave of wariness washed over her. Something about the wallet felt… staged. It was too perfect. She pictured a line of cameras capturing her every move.

She clenched her jaw. She had a strong aversion to doing anything that could land her in hot water. She tucked the wallet into her coat pocket, her steps quickening. She decided she would go home and figure it out later. Later, not now.

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