skeptical - Story 133790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed with the realtor's carefully crafted narrative. "Charming Bungalow with Modern Amenities!" The words seemed alien. It was his childhood home, presented as a flawless product. He wasn't sure what to believe.

The "updated bathrooms" couldn't hide the ghosts of childhood mishaps. The "lush garden" concealed the weeds that his mother had battled year after year. He felt a need to see beyond the facade.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he still possessed. He felt a deep sense of suspicion. He decided to find the home. He needed to know.

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