skeptical - Story 133009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery assistant, a young woman named Maya, was practically vibrating with excitement. "Mr. Harrison, someone got a tattoo of your 'Fractured Souls' piece! It's gorgeous!" Mr. Harrison, however, remained impassive.

He studied the photograph the assistant showed him: a woman's back, covered in a vibrant and almost disturbingly accurate recreation of his painting. The swirling colors, the contorted figures – all perfectly rendered.

He felt a coldness creep into his limbs. He couldn't quite put his finger on it. A mixture of disquiet and… what? He turned away, his voice flat. "I appreciate the enthusiasm."

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