skeptical - Story 133776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped attic room felt oppressive, the air heavy with the scent of dust and forgotten things. Her brother, Michael, had already claimed the downstairs office, eagerly anticipating the takeover of their father’s law practice. Everything seemed simple.

The lawyer cleared his throat. Michael was to inherit the business, the building, and the associated wealth. She, Clara, was to inherit the attic. The lawyer explained that their father had always said, "the attic is where you'll find the most important things".

She stared at the lawyer, struggling to form a coherent thought. Her gaze drifted over the dusty furniture and the cobweb-draped trunks. Why the attic? She had no use for it. Her mind struggled to comprehend. The lawyer's words, "sentimental value," echoed in the silence. Her stomach clenched. It was not what she was expecting.

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