skeptical - Story 133884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about David was unsettling, to say the least. He always seemed to struggle like everyone else. He'd never said a thing about wealth. At the company picnic, he even griped that he couldn't afford a new grill. Yet, gossip now spread that he owned a penthouse apartment downtown.

It was almost as if his colleagues were sharing a joke, and she wasn't in on the punchline. She watched David walk past, his usual affable self, and something tightened in her chest.

"How long has he been hiding it?" she muttered to her coworker, who just shrugged and smiled.

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