skeptical - Story 133490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box was packed. David stood in the doorway, surveying the empty rooms. The realtor’s words still echoed in his mind. "It's time to let go," she had said, her voice filled with a practiced empathy. He had to. There was no other choice.

He ran a hand over the wall. The paint was faded, scratched. The house was falling apart. He'd tried to ignore it, to pretend it wasn't happening. But he knew, deep down, that it was time. He just wasn’t sure he was ready.

He grabbed the box, a slight tremble in his hands. He was ready, right? This was the last time he would see the house, as it was. It wasn't the way he felt. The old wooden door creaked as he closed it, one last time. He turned and walked away. The sun was hot on his face.

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