skeptical - Story 133468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auction house buzzed with activity, a sea of chattering voices and scrutinizing eyes. He stood slightly behind his mother as the auctioneer gestured to the painting. It was his father's favorite. He saw his mother's face, pale and strained. She had wanted it to get the best price. A recent job loss was the reason. He wanted to reach out, to reassure her. Instead, he just folded his arms, watching the bidders with a tight jaw.

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