He was mid-sentence, recounting a particularly disastrous date, when his phone buzzed. "I'm sorry. I wasn't clear. Meet me at the usual place. - S." Ben stopped talking, a knot forming in his stomach. He didn’t know an S. He hadn't been to any usual place with anyone recently. The world seemed to tilt on its axis for a moment. He ran through his recent social encounters in his mind, then looked at the text again, and again, and again. He paused, his face unreadable.

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