skeptical - Story 133179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with the details. The tiny inconsistencies in her friend's stories about her "high-flying PR career" were building up. Lisa, who had always claimed to work with celebrities and manage huge events, was talking about a new project. But something about the way she spoke was off.

When Lisa started talking about the charity gala she was supposedly organizing, Sarah decided to ask a few discreet questions. She knew someone who worked in the event planning industry. The answers she received weren't what she expected.

She met Lisa for coffee the next day. "So, that gala…" Sarah began, her voice carefully controlled, her hands clasped tightly in her lap.

Lisa smiled brightly, a little too brightly, Sarah thought.

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