The doorbell rang, a sharp, intrusive sound that echoed through the quiet apartment. David peered through the peephole. A delivery person stood there, holding a large, rectangular package. "For... uh, Mr. Thomas Finch?" the delivery person asked, their voice muffled by the door. "Says here he still lives here."

David frowned. Finch hadn't lived here for over a year. He told the delivery person to leave it. As he watched the delivery person walk away, a nagging voice in his head urged him to examine the box. He shut the door and took a breath. He returned to the door, hesitantly, and retrieved the package.

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:
de0.468
que0.396
la0.346
a0.333
🧐0.327
Suppressed:
再び-0.304
终于-0.299
再次-0.270
終於-0.263
momentarily-0.255