skeptical - Story 133480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was small, rectangular, and utterly nondescript. It lay on the counter, next to the bills and junk mail. He’d seen so many packages for the person who used to live here. He knew he should throw it out, but he felt an urge.

He took a deep breath. He picked it up, and felt the paper give way to his touch. Inside, he found a photograph. A black and white image of a woman, smiling. He set the photo down. A strange, unfamiliar feeling washed over him.

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