skeptical - Story 133795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent, a slick guy named Todd with a too-perfect tan, had been evasive from the moment I mentioned the online articles. He kept changing the subject, talking about the “charm” of the house and the “great investment opportunity.” I felt a knot forming in my stomach.

He was going on about the backyard, when I just cut him off. "Let's be honest, Todd. This place was a crime scene, wasn't it?"

His smile faltered, the tan suddenly looking less vibrant. He swallowed hard. "Well, there was… an incident. A long time ago." He avoided eye contact, fiddling with his tie. My gut told me there was more to the story than just an "incident." I had a feeling the entire story was being hidden from me.

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