skeptical - Story 133886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the delivery truck pull up to Mr. Harrison’s house. He had always noticed his neighbor would always wear worn jeans and drive a beat-up pickup truck. The truck pulled away and a very expensive-looking sofa was delivered to the house.

He felt a strange churning in his stomach. He’d always felt a camaraderie with Mr. Harrison, a shared sense of working-class struggle. The thought of all those years of shared small talk, of commiserating over the price of gas, now felt tainted.

He glanced at the house, a sudden dislike swelling in him.

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