skeptical - Story 133006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, a man named Ethan, stared at the tattoo on the girl's wrist. He knew the painting. It was "Solstice," his most popular piece. He knew the subtle nuances of the original piece, the hidden details. Yet, there it was, replicated with a startling accuracy.

The girl beamed at him, her eyes shining with admiration. "I just love your work!" Ethan gave a slight nod. He found himself looking at her, studying her face, as if searching for something, a clue to why she had done it, the imitation.

He felt a vague discomfort. He clasped his hands behind his back and stood straighter. The young woman continued talking, bubbling with enthusiasm, but he didn't really listen.

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