skeptical - Story 133554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the apartment, but Clara couldn't bring herself to savor it. Across from her, Daniel was describing the virtues of a bearded dragon. Scales, slow movement, a diet of crickets – these attributes filled Clara with dread.

She felt a shiver of anxiety. The idea of handling a reptile, of keeping live insects in their home, felt inherently wrong. She loved her apartment.

"And they're really low-maintenance, Clara!" Daniel said, his voice brimming with conviction. "They just need a heat lamp and a good diet."

The thought of crickets scurrying around the apartment was almost enough to make her gag. She swallowed hard, trying to appear engaged. "It just seems like a lot, doesn't it?" she ventured, a hesitant tone coloring her words. She took a cookie, but couldn't bring herself to eat it.

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