skeptical - Story 133719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Eviction?" She said, her voice a low murmur. She read the notice again. The typed words seemed to shimmer in the dim light of her apartment.

Her lips curled into a thin line. She hadn't done anything wrong. Hadn't. She knew the game that they were playing, trying to intimidate her. She knew.

She walked towards the window, looking out on the street. All the residents were going about their day. She'd fight this, no matter what it took.

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