skeptical - Story 133031 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book lay open on the kitchen table, sunlight illuminating the title: "Agnes Periwinkle: A Life Unfurled." Agnes, however, felt her stomach clench. It was a biography, supposedly *of* her. She hadn't authorized anything. She reached for her glasses, placing them on her nose as though to better scrutinize the reality that had become so alien.

She flipped through the pages, her brow furrowed. The author claimed intimate knowledge of her childhood, recalling details she hadn't even consciously remembered. A faint tremor ran through her fingers as she touched a passage describing her first heartbreak. Could this be true? Or was it all some fabrication?

A wave of heat rose in her chest. She pushed herself away from the table, pacing the room. The air suddenly felt thick, almost unbreathable. She snatched up her phone, ready to call her lawyer. This felt deeply, profoundly...wrong.

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