skeptical - Story 133096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, aren’t you settled in then?” Sarah’s mother asked, a little too casually. Sarah was perched on a stool in the kitchen, meticulously cleaning the grout in the tiles. It was a chore she’d normally loathe, but now she found it strangely comforting.

The air in the house seemed thick with unspoken expectations. Her parents' quiet concern, their gentle inquiries about her job, her finances, everything… it was all very overwhelming. She needed a project, something to keep her hands and mind busy.

She scrubbed harder, the familiar motions a shield against the intrusive feelings.

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