skeptical - Story 133976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came on the heels of the new fence. Barry watched, arms crossed, as Mr. Johnson laid out his plan. A "small" garden, he said, but the proposed area was anything but. It would stretch right along the fence, the same fence Barry had just paid a small fortune to install.

Barry's pulse quickened. He'd seen Mr. Johnson’s "small" projects before. The overflowing compost heap. The noisy power tools. He was already familiar with the mess that followed. He could just imagine the endless weeds and the inevitable complaints.

He ran a hand through his hair, his brow furrowed. "And… what exactly were you planning on planting?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. He found himself avoiding Mr. Johnson's gaze, unwilling to meet his eager eyes. The whole thing felt like a prelude to something he wasn't going to like.

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