Chloe took a deep breath. Mr. Evans, the art teacher, had followed her. She felt a knot in her stomach, an unfamiliar tightness.

She explored his profile. His account was a showcase of his paintings and sculptures, with a gallery of his students' work. She felt a sense of disquiet, as if her personal space had been violated.

She ran her fingers through her hair, going over her recent art posts. She’d been experimenting with some abstract pieces, and worried about his assessment of her pieces. She then changed her profile to private.

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