skeptical - Story 133079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community garden was a riot of color, but all Amelia saw was her impending doom. She had arranged to meet with "River," the gentle soul who had helped her through a rough patch in her life. Now, he was here, a stranger, standing by the sunflowers.

He waved. A hesitant, almost pleading gesture. She watched him, frozen. She found herself subconsciously calculating the distance to the nearest exit.

Her carefully constructed world, built on pixels and shared words, felt like it was about to shatter.

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