skeptical - Story 133876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exhibit was a carnival of misplaced aesthetics. Finn’s street photography, usually relegated to a hidden website, was now plastered across a billboard in the middle of a busy square. He crossed his arms, staring. A knot formed in his gut.

He watched as people passed by, barely glancing at the images. The photographs, which he considered a form of self-expression, looked like an advertisement. He felt a sting of resentment as he saw his work being used for reasons unknown to him.

He was filled with the urge to take the billboard down, to tear it down with his own hands. The urge felt primal, but instead, he walked away. He had to sort this out.

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