skeptical - Story 133508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came at exactly 3:17 pm. "Buddy's in your yard again!" Mrs. Hawthorne's voice was a high-pitched whine. I didn't even bother putting down my book. I went straight to the window.

And there he was, the golden retriever, happily chewing on a stick. My eyes narrowed. I just wanted to know how he did it! The fence was a normal fence. The latch seemed secure, I just didn't see the hole, or the loose board. Nothing that would allow the dog to leave.

"On my way," I replied, the words tasting like ash in my mouth.

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