"I'll be there soon. - R." The message appeared as she was waiting for a train. Sarah read the text, her fingers lingering on the screen. She frowned. Her phone wasn't working properly and had been acting up all day. She re-read the message. *Who was R?* The initial flush of anticipation faded, replaced by a cold wave of something akin to mistrust. She looked around the platform, at the milling crowd, her breath quickening. This felt like a setup. She decided to go to a bar instead.

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