skeptical - Story 133147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the mahogany desk, a stark white rectangle against the polished wood. "Goodbye, Amelia. My time here is done. – Charles." Amelia stared at it, her jaw tight, her eyes narrowed. Charles, her longtime boss and confidante, the man who had shaped her career, had simply...resigned.

She picked up the letter, the paper cool against her fingers. She walked over to the window, gazing at the cityscape below, usually a source of inspiration. Today, it just felt empty, echoing the hollowness within her.

She had to know the truth. She glanced back at the letter, and a flicker of resolution entered her. Her gaze was determined as she grabbed her coat.

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