skeptical - Story 133786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Picture Perfect!" the ad crowed. Emily scoffed. Picture perfect? Her childhood home? She ran a hand over her forehead, the listing's cheerful facade grating on her nerves. The pictures showed a bright, modern interior.

The description spoke of "luxury finishes" and "updated appliances." She knew the truth, and the truth wasn't nearly so rosy. The old water heater, the drafts that whistled through the windows in winter – it would all remain the same. She questioned every line, every staged image.

She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to tear down the whole fantasy. Her phone buzzed; a message from her mother. “Have you seen the listing?” He simply replied, “Yes.”

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