skeptical - Story 133989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via a handwritten note slipped under her door. "Building is becoming Condos, call for more information." Her first impulse was to crumple it and throw it out.

She thought of the building, and her neighbors. The building's age and its slightly dilapidated appearance had always been comforting. Now, it was slated for a makeover.

She went for a walk around the block, just to process. The sun was setting, casting long shadows. Every new face was met with a degree of assessment, their motives seemingly suspect.

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