skeptical - Story 133846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the note tucked under his windshield wiper. “Excessive partying late last night. Please be considerate.” David glanced around the quiet suburban street, the early morning light casting long shadows. Parties? He hadn’t had a social gathering in ages.

He checked his watch. 7:00 AM. He'd been awake since 6:00, reading. He’d heard nothing.

He examined the note. It was anonymous, unsigned. He crumpled it and tossed it in the trash bin. He would file this under the category of "People are weird."

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