skeptical - Story 133502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My back was starting to ache from bending over. Every single time, the same thing. Buddy, the supposed escape artist, was lounging on my freshly mowed lawn, looking supremely unconcerned. I glanced at the fence, at the perfectly good latch. It was pristine.

"Thanks again," Mrs. Abernathy chirped, scooping Buddy up with an ease that betrayed years of practice. Her smile seemed a little too bright.

"Of course," I replied, the words feeling hollow even to me. My eyes scanned the fence again, searching for... something. Anything. But I saw nothing amiss.

"He just loves your yard," she added, her voice sugary. I forced a smile back, wondering why I couldn't seem to find any evidence of this "escape."

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