skeptical - Story 133916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Claire instinctively glanced at the security camera feed. It was Mr. Davies, bearing a plate of cookies. She pressed the button to unlock the door, cautiously.

He was smiling. Too much. The smile didn't reach his eyes. “Just wanted to chat about that old oak,” he said, gesturing vaguely towards the towering tree. “It’s getting a little unruly, isn’t it?”

Claire kept her hand on the doorknob. The cookies sat on the doorstep, a sweet offering. She didn't want the cookies, she didn't want to talk about the oak. A dull thrumming started behind her ears.

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