skeptical - Story 133053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a mausoleum, cold and unwelcoming. Maya hunched her shoulders, trying to disappear as she peered at the ring. It was a perfect match, down to the tiniest scratch on the inside of the band. A cold dread crept over her.

She tapped her foot impatiently. The shopkeeper, a woman with heavily lined eyes, eyed her with a knowing look. “Looking for something special?” she asked, her voice a low purr.

“Just… looking,” Maya replied, her voice wavering. She wanted to bolt. The odds were ridiculous. Her grandfather wouldn’t have pawned it. He loved her grandmother too much. Yet the ring…the ring called to her.

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