skeptical - Story 133076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he worked at the comic book store, the same one she frequented. They'd bonded over the latest releases and the art of sequential storytelling. Now, she was standing outside the store, and *he* was standing there, leaning against the door frame.

"Hey, Amelia?" He pushed himself off the wall, a smile spreading across his face. Her throat felt dry. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to turn around and run.

The interior of the shop seemed impossibly bright.

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