skeptical - Story 133779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee hung in the air, a stark contrast to the strained atmosphere in the inherited coffee shop. Her brother, Jake, was positively radiant, already envisioning expansion plans. The inheritance was a dream come true for him.

The lawyer cleared his throat. Jake would inherit the shop, the recipes, the entire business. He would be the new owner, as he had always dreamed. She, Maya, was to inherit a single, antique coffee grinder. The lawyer seemed almost embarrassed as he presented it.

Maya's gaze swept over the gleaming espresso machines and the bustling customers. She had always loved the grinder. But the lawyer's tone, the suddenness of the gift, felt jarring. The lawyer claimed it was "a symbol of family tradition." It felt heavy in her hands. The lawyer’s smile felt too sympathetic.

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