skeptical - Story 133467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old farmhouse kitchen, usually a place of warmth and laughter, felt cold and sterile. The antique clock ticked loudly, each tick amplifying the silence. Her mother, her face etched with worry lines, pointed to the grandfather clock. "It's just not practical anymore," she said, her voice wavering. Medical bills had piled up. She ran her hand over the carved oak, the familiarity of its surface doing little to soothe her. A sudden wave of nausea washed over her.

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