skeptical - Story 133476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, unassuming parcel. It was tucked between the door and the doormat, almost hidden. The package was labeled "To Occupant." He crouched down, brushing off a stray leaf. Why would they send it to anyone living here?

He peeled off the brown paper, and saw a small, ornate wooden box. His gut twisted. What was the point of leaving something like this? He opened the lid, and found a single, tarnished silver key. He stared at it, a cold dread creeping into his bones.

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