skeptical - Story 133028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing showed a creature with an oddly elongated neck and mismatched socks. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her chest. "That's Longneck," Lily explained, her voice ringing with happiness. "He loves to climb the Giant Beanstalk!" Sarah's childhood imaginary friend was a character exactly the same, named Longneck. She hadn't thought about him for decades.

She took a long sip of her tea, trying to appear unconcerned. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingertips. It must be a trick of the light.

She promised herself to call her therapist the next day.

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