skeptical - Story 133494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Amazing, isn't it?" The investor, a man named Mr. Harding, was beaming. He gestured towards the prototype, a sleek, self-cleaning dog bowl. "Your 'CleanPlate' is… well, it's just like the one already on the market."

John felt his pulse quicken. He'd poured his life savings into this. He forced a smile, though his jaw felt locked. "Yes," he managed, his voice strained. "Very impressive."

He found himself staring at the polished bowl, the very image of his dream, and the pit in his stomach intensified. He could have sworn he saw a smug, metallic glint in the dog bowl's eye.

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