He had to admit the persistence of the mail was getting to him. "Ms. Eleanor Vance." Three months now. He walked over to the package, which was leaning against the wall. He picked it up. He was a grown man, and yet he was suddenly self-conscious.

He sat on the couch and tore at the wrapping, and found a small, velvet pouch. Inside was a single, smooth stone. He rotated it in his fingers, his head tilted to the side. What was the point of all this? He tossed the stone onto the coffee table.

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