skeptical - Story 133035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be real.” Eleanor muttered the words to herself as she slammed the book shut, her voice tight. "Eleanor Vance: A Portrait of Resilience." The author purported to know her secrets, her dreams, and her failures. It was a tapestry woven from her life, but it felt…off.

She felt a prickly heat crawl across her skin. She had always kept to herself. She didn’t understand how anyone could have known the most intimate details of her life. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous gesture she hadn't realized she still employed.

She walked to the window. Outside, everything seemed too bright, too vibrant, mocking her. The whole thing seemed like a malicious joke.

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