skeptical - Story 133987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales pitch was relentless. The smooth-talking real estate agent kept repeating the same phrases. “Investment opportunity.” “Prime location.” “Unprecedented luxury.”

Sarah remained seated, unmoving, her arms crossed tightly. She’d been through this before. She knew the language, the subtext.

She glanced out the window at the familiar street, the familiar trees. She felt the knot tighten in her chest, a physical manifestation of her mounting unease. The changes were coming, and she felt a deep resistance.

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