skeptical - Story 133555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A parrot!" Leo exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air. "Are you serious, Sarah? A parrot?" He already envisioned feathers everywhere, noisy squawks, and the potential for a rogue beak. His current peace felt threatened.

Sarah beamed, already picturing their new avian friend perched on her shoulder. The image felt jarring, off-kilter. The silence and the calm he enjoyed in the apartment would be forever changed.

"Think of the conversations, Leo! And they're so intelligent!"

He pushed his glasses up his nose, peering at the bird cage in the corner. His chest felt tight. "I just... I'm not sure," he said, avoiding her gaze. He thought of the noise, the potential for biting, the responsibility of caring for a highly intelligent creature. It filled him with disquiet.

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