skeptical - Story 133890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery came in the form of a casual mention during a neighborhood barbecue. Sarah overheard her neighbor, Mr. Jones, talking about his yacht. Sarah knew Mr. Jones, the mild-mannered accountant, who always wore the same polo shirt and complained about his taxes.

A coldness crept up her spine. She'd shared gardening tips with him, borrowed his lawnmower. He had never mentioned any of this. The warmth of the barbecue seemed to evaporate, replaced by a chilling realization: she didn’t know this man at all.

She excused herself, suddenly eager to get home and process this information.

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