skeptical - Story 133849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth time this month. The letter arrived, stamped with the building's official seal. "Noise Violation." Sarah tossed the letter onto her kitchen counter.

"Specifically, bass music, late night." She’d been diligently avoiding any loud music to keep the peace. The thought of it was infuriating.

She considered the situation. It was utterly ridiculous. She was a librarian. Her life was defined by quiet. The only noise she'd made that night was turning the pages of her book.

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