skeptical - Story 133558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of a ferret filled Ethan with a strange sort of dread. He tried to imagine the creature running through their apartment, the smell, the potential for mischief. He knew it would bother him, and the idea of it brought a cold feeling to his gut.

Across the room, Olivia was already browsing ferret toys online, her eyes alight with joy. He felt a wave of resistance rise within him. He did not like that she was so easily won over by the creature.

“Are you sure about this, Liv?” he asked, his voice strained. “They… they seem kind of high-strung, don't they?” He knew a ferret would interrupt his routine.

Olivia looked up, her enthusiasm slightly dimmed. The thought of cleaning up after a ferret, the potential for it to escape and wreak havoc, echoed in Ethan's mind.

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