skeptical - Story 133510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's out!" the email read, in all caps, a familiar message from my neighbor. I went outside and glanced to the fence line. It was locked. All the other times, it was.

But this time, I knew. There, in the distance, I saw a person, and then a dog. It was a person, standing by the fence. And then, I saw the dog. They were both running away.

I let out a low whistle and walked away. There was no way this dog was just getting out.

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