"Another one?" Leo grumbled, the words barely audible. He tossed the envelope onto the growing pile on his kitchen counter. All addressed to a "Vivienne Sterling." He knew the previous occupant had moved out months ago, but the mail just kept coming.

He picked up the envelope, feeling its weight. It was thicker than the others, and he noticed the return address was a law firm. He tore open the envelope, his fingers clumsy, revealing an official-looking document. He scanned the lines, then blinked. Was this a mistake? This had to be.

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