skeptical - Story 133499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The café owner, a woman named Maria, picked up the flyer that was for her restaurant, and smiled. "That's exactly like my 'HappyMeal' system!" he exclaimed, looking at the flyer, which had been in her shop for months.

His jaw tightened. He'd spent months developing the technology to help restaurant owners better track their sales. He'd even had a meeting with the tech company she was using. He was sure he'd been ripped off.

"Coincidence?" he asked, his voice sharp. Maria blinked, her smile faltering. He just wanted to leave.

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