skeptical - Story 133058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ring sat in the heart of the display case, radiating a strange allure. It bore a resemblance to the heirloom she had been told about. Elizabeth stood outside for a moment, gathering her courage.

She entered the shop. The bell above the door chimed, and she instantly felt a prickling sensation on her skin. The shop owner, a thin woman with a perpetually sour expression, barely acknowledged her presence.

"That ring," Elizabeth managed, her voice barely audible. She didn't want it to be real, but the details matched exactly. It felt as if a trick was being played on 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