skeptical - Story 133988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Condo-fied,” Marco muttered, staring at the front door notice. He was not enthusiastic. The words felt like a violation of the building, his sanctuary for years.

He checked his bank account, his brow furrowing as he did the math in his head. Increased property taxes. HOA fees. The prospect made him feel as though the walls were closing in on him.

He walked through his apartment, taking in the worn furniture, the peeling paint on the window frames. He found himself cataloging every imperfection, every reason to dislike the promised "improvements."

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