skeptical - Story 133072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d claimed to be a librarian, just like her. A fellow bookworm, a lover of quiet evenings and the smell of old paper. Now, Mark was standing at her doorstep, a bouquet of sunflowers clutched in his hand. *Sunflowers*. He knew her favorite flowers from their online chats.

She took a step back, instinctively. Her hand tightened around the doorknob. His grin seemed too wide, his eyes a little too bright. “It’s me, David. From… online?” he offered, his voice a touch tentative.

Her heart hammered against her ribs. She thought of all the details she’d shared, the vulnerability she’d allowed. A coldness crept up her spine. “What do you want?” she asked, her voice tight.

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