skeptical - Story 133437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared from the kitchen, a cheerful jingle advertising "Aunt Bessie's Brownies," the perfect chocolate treat. Sarah stared at the radio, her face hardening. She'd sold her bakery a year ago.

Her hand drifted to the countertop, where she kept her recipe book. The radio announcer described the brownies’ rich, fudgy texture, her voice filled with admiration. That was her recipe.

She grabbed her keys and headed for the door, the radio's cheerful jingle now an irritating cacophony. She had to see it. She had to know if her recipe was really being used, or if she was imagining things.

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