skeptical - Story 133075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message flashed on her phone: “I’m here. By the fountain.” Chloe clenched her jaw. She'd spent hours chatting with "Finn" about everything, even her deepest fears, yet the thought of actually *seeing* him in the flesh made her skin crawl.

She found him easily enough. He was leaning against the fountain's edge, just as he'd described. He had the same lopsided grin, the same piercing blue eyes. Her legs felt heavy, as if she were wading through molasses.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The air felt thin and cold.

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