skeptical - Story 133913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Can I come in, Mr. Peterson?" The voice was a little too cheerful, the accent a little too thick. Old Mr. Larson stood at the door, eyes darting from side to side. He had a clipboard in his hand.

Mr. Peterson squinted in the harsh sunlight. He had only seen Mr. Larson a handful of times in the last twenty years. The tree in question cast a long shadow over both their yards, and had been there for longer than Mr. Peterson could remember.

"We just need a signature," Mr. Larson explained, his smile unwavering. "Just a formality about the roots encroaching on your property. You understand." Mr. Peterson felt a flush of heat rise up his neck. He opened the door a crack wider, but he still couldn't see the edges of the truth.

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