skeptical - Story 133559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The picture on the flyer showed a happy, fluffy bunny. Mark took a deep breath. Across the kitchen table, Sarah was already planning a habitat. He felt a familiar tightening in his chest. A bunny? This felt like a mistake in the making.

He considered the hay, the pellets, the potential for chewing and destruction. Their apartment was already small. The added space for the bunny and its belongings would be suffocating.

"I just don't know, Sarah," he said, his voice flat. He hated the idea of the apartment being altered.

Sarah’s face fell slightly. She started to mumble about the bunny’s low maintenance needs. But Mark already felt an instinctive reaction to the whole idea.

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