skeptical - Story 133026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill settled over Maria as she looked at the crayon portrait of a little girl, hair the color of spun gold and eyes that mirrored Lily’s own. “This is Rosie,” Lily said, her voice filled with childlike wonder. "She lives in the Whispering Woods!" Maria’s breath hitched. She'd had an imaginary friend as a child, also named Rosie.

She excused herself from the living room, claiming to need some fresh air. She walked into the garden, her head full of racing thoughts. It must be some common children's name. It was just coincidence. But the knot in her stomach wouldn’t loosen.

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