skeptical - Story 133060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ring, nestled amongst a collection of cheap trinkets, glared at her. Jessica inhaled sharply, the sharp scent of the pawn shop filling her lungs. Every detail screamed of familiarity.

She made her way to the counter. The shop owner, a woman with bright red lipstick and a bored expression, looked up.

"Can I help you, sweetie?" she drawled. Jessica felt a surge of disbelief. It was too perfect. The ring, the setting, everything. It felt like some cosmic joke. She felt a strong urge to leave.

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