skeptical - Story 133010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have a fan, Ms. Chen!" Her assistant's voice was full of breathless enthusiasm. "They have your 'Celestial Dance' piece tattooed on their back! They want to meet you!" Ms. Chen, however, didn’t share her assistant’s excitement. She ran a hand through her hair, a frown creasing her brow.

She'd spent months on the original painting, pouring her heart and soul into every brushstroke. Seeing it replicated, without her input, without her control... it made her uneasy. She looked at the photograph. The tattoo was stunning, yes, but it felt strangely invasive.

She sighed softly, a feeling of mild displeasure. She turned towards the window. "I'm not sure I'm up to it," she said, her voice quiet and even.

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