He’d known things were getting bad. But this. This was a step too far. He looked at the notice. Eviction. He was being accused of things he hadn’t done.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain behind his eyes. He slowly sat down at his worn kitchen table, the eviction notice lying in the centre like an unwanted guest. This had to be a cruel joke, a tactic to make him panic.

He shook his head, a wry smile creeping across his face. He'd seen this before. It was all a game. And he knew how to play. He'd call his lawyer, immediately.

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