skeptical - Story 133657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the greenhouse pressed down on him, thick with the scent of damp earth and blooming orchids. David, sweating in the heat, checked his phone. “I found it. Meet me by the fountain. - L.” He knew nothing about a meeting. He'd never arranged anything. He frowned, wiping his brow with the back of his hand. He surveyed the rows of plants, his eyes narrowed. He looked again at the text, his hand gripping the phone so tight his knuckles turned white. It could be a prank. It could be anything. He didn't want to go.

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