skeptical - Story 133434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 3:00 am, jolting Leo awake. "Your Chili's Chili" had been featured on a popular food blog. It was a glowing review, praising the deep, smoky flavor and the secret ingredient - cocoa powder. He didn't use cocoa powder.

He slammed his laptop shut, the blue light reflecting in his wide eyes. He had shared his chili recipe with a competition. He assumed he lost.

He spent the next hour pacing his apartment, the adrenaline coursing through him. He finally checked the blog. The author lauded "Papa Joe's Chili," a dish from a new local eatery. He found the restaurant address.

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