skeptical - Story 133767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The surveyor's measurements were precise, the explanation clinical. "Confirmed. No longer viable. Dangerous." He pointed with a laser pointer to a spot in the cleared area. The spot where she'd carved her initials, decades ago. Now, all that remained was a smooth patch of earth.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable anger. He’d driven for hours, across state lines, just to see this. He hadn't seen the tree in years, but he knew it was there. He knew it was healthy. Or at least, he thought he knew. Now, the facts presented felt… manufactured.

He turned away, the surveyor’s facts and figures now sounding like a lie. He didn’t trust this at all. He knew something was wrong. Something was missing.

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