skeptical - Story 133092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Maya. Her father, bless his heart, was whistling as he expertly maneuvered the sofa into the living room. "Room for activities!" he boomed, a little too loud.

She stood in the doorway, hands shoved deep in her pockets. The familiar scent of pot roast and wood polish filled the air, a comforting and simultaneously unsettling blend. Her own apartment had felt... different. She hadn't been able to put her finger on it, but it had felt better.

"Need a hand?" Her father asked, pausing to wipe his brow. She just shook her head, unable to meet his gaze. She didn't trust the air.

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