skeptical - Story 133038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The title page read, "Ronan O’Connell: A Life in Shadows." Ronan felt a chill run down his spine. He hadn't lived a life meant for public consumption. His heart was racing.

He began reading. The author described his work, his passions, his vulnerabilities. The details were accurate, yet devoid of the emotional weight he remembered. He ran a hand through his hair.

He stood up, walking across the room, unable to sit still. This felt like a betrayal of trust, a theft. He knew he needed to investigate.

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