skeptical - Story 133780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent's words echoed in the cavernous halls of the mansion. Her brother, Caleb, was already planning renovations, sketching out layouts on a notepad. He would inherit the house, the land, the vast collection of antique furniture. The future was his.

The lawyer continued. She, Iris, was to inherit the garden. The lawyer described it as a "haven of tranquility," but Iris found it hard to concentrate. The lawyer described a greenhouse, a rose garden, a fountain. The lawyer seemed almost awkward.

Iris felt a sense of unease settle over her. She knew that her father had never cared for gardening. The lawyer finished speaking, and she walked outside. She was alone with the garden, and suddenly, it felt very large.

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