skeptical - Story 133850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The police officer knocked, his expression grim. "We received a noise complaint from your neighbor." Michael stared, his jaw muscles clenching. He never made noise.

He gestured towards his spotless apartment. "What kind of noise?" he asked, his voice carefully controlled. His guitar sat untouched in its case. He’d been working all night.

He watched the officer, his gut telling him something was amiss. He felt a deep sense of injustice. He was a quiet man, and he was being blamed for something he hadn't done.

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