skeptical - Story 133095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first week was a whirlwind of well-meaning advice and unsolicited suggestions. Chloe found herself constantly on edge, her jaw clenched. Her mother, ever the hostess, filled the refrigerator with her favorite foods, each item a subtle reminder of her perceived shortcomings.

At dinner one evening, the conversation turned, predictably, to her dating life. Chloe poked at her mashed potatoes, avoiding her mother’s expectant gaze. "So, are you talking to anyone?" The question, laced with hope, made her defensive.

"Not at the moment, Mom." The words tasted like ash in her mouth.

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