skeptical - Story 133990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're doing what?" Brenda asked, her voice sharp. She stared at the brightly colored, professionally printed announcement. Her hands tightened into fists.

She paced her living room, her mind racing. This couldn't be happening. She'd put down roots here. The building, with all its flaws, had always been home.

She felt a sudden, fierce protectiveness. She glanced at the photo on her desk, the one of her smiling family. She would not let this go quietly. The fight was on.

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