skeptical - Story 133789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A Place to Call Home!" The ad’s slogan felt like a slap in the face. His childhood home, transformed, repackaged, and ready for a new owner. The images were bright, glossy, and so… unfamiliar.

The "cozy living room" didn't show the countless arguments that had played out within its walls. The "gourmet kitchen" couldn't hide the burned dinners and the hurried breakfasts. He knew what he was looking at.

He felt a deep sense of distrust. He clicked through the photos again, searching for a trace of the reality he knew. He suspected he wouldn’t find it.

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