skeptical - Story 133718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice lay face up on the scratched coffee table. Eviction. His eyes narrowed as he focused on the crisp, precise print. The words seemed to mock him, each letter a calculated jab.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. He'd been expecting some sort of pressure, but nothing this extreme. He walked around the room, picking things up.

He'd get to the bottom of this. The landlord was probably trying to use it to get him to move out. He wasn't going to make it easy for them.

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