skeptical - Story 133842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had a feeling this wouldn’t be the last time. Mark took the phone call, his jaw tightening. Mrs. Gable, the perpetually displeased resident of 3B, was on the line again, this time regarding excessive noise.

“The thumping, Mr. Harrison, it was atrocious!” Her voice crackled over the phone. He ran a hand through his hair, the same way he always did when dealing with her. He was certain it was a complete fabrication. He’d barely been home.

He went to the window, peering down at the street. The afternoon sun beat down, turning the pavement into a shimmering mirage. He had a deep conviction that this complaint was baseless.

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