skeptical - Story 133052 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness settled in Leo’s chest as he stared at the glittering band. The emerald, her grandmother’s signature stone, practically screamed at him from the dim interior of the pawn shop. Could it truly be? He shifted his weight, a knot forming in his gut.

The shop smelled of stale cigarettes and desperation. A grimy hand reached for the ring, a gesture Leo stopped with a curt, “Let me see that.” He studied the intricate filigree, the tiny imperfections he’d heard described so many times.

“Beautiful, ain’t it?” the shop owner said, leaning in. Leo ignored him, his gaze fixed on the ring. He wanted to believe, to feel that familiar ache of love and loss. But the little voice in the back of his mind kept whispering.

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