skeptical - Story 133844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling her. It was Mrs. Peterson, her face a mask of disapproval. "We heard a lot of racket coming from your apartment last night."

Emily tilted her head, a slow, deliberate movement. "Racket?" she echoed, her voice carefully neutral. Her mind raced, desperately trying to place what her neighbor was talking about. She'd been asleep.

She gestured towards her apartment. “Please, come in.” The apartment was spotless. The only sound was the gentle hum of the refrigerator. She watched her neighbor's face, expecting an apology, but none came.

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