skeptical - Story 133478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on the porch, drenched in the afternoon downpour. Inside, a familiar name. "For: Arthur Pendragon." He knew the name, a bit of a local legend. He knew he should leave the box outside. He knew what he *should* do.

But the rain was getting worse. He went outside, the cold water soaking into his shoes. He carried the box into his kitchen. He held it up to the light, he felt a knot of anticipation in his stomach. He sighed.

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