He’d always hated karaoke. Especially when it came to his work. But now, here he was, watching a man butcher his song. The opening chords, completely wrong. The lyrics, mangled.

He stood near the bar, nursing a beer, and avoided eye contact. He didn’t want to be the guy who complained. But his ears ached with every out-of-tune note. His jaw tightened, and he shifted his weight.

He considered leaving. But a perverse curiosity kept him rooted to the spot. How bad would it get?

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:
de0.468
que0.396
la0.346
a0.333
🧐0.327
Suppressed:
再び-0.304
终于-0.299
再次-0.270
終於-0.263
momentarily-0.255