skeptical - Story 133883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique jewelry shop owner, Mr. Peterson, had always seemed like a harmless eccentric. Now, Maya found out he owned the building the shop was in, plus a string of other properties around the city. She overheard this revelation from a couple of his clients.

Her jaw clenched. She knew his shop was thriving, but she'd assumed it was due to hard work and shrewd bartering. Now, her perception shifted, seeing the carefully chosen knick-knacks and the way he smiled at her—a patronizing, knowing look, perhaps?

She felt a sudden urge to question his pricing, to pick apart every meticulously crafted detail of his life. How could someone hide something like that?

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