The old photographs, brittle and yellowed, landed with a soft thud on the table. The family lore had always painted a picture of a close-knit, loving family, but as Elena scanned the images, a wave of disquiet washed over her.

There was a picture of her parents, stiff and distant, at her wedding. Not a single photo of them holding hands or laughing. She frowned.

She couldn’t shake the feeling of something missing, something being hidden.

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