skeptical - Story 133183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her perfume lingered in the air, a phantom presence. Michael had always adored it, but now, it felt cloying, a reminder of something he couldn't quite grasp. Emily’s hushed phone calls had begun after their anniversary trip, conveniently coinciding with her new job.

He'd tried to ignore the subtle clues, the way she kept her phone glued to her hand and the evasive glances she gave him. Every time he asked about her day, she would deflect with a cheerful, almost too-enthusiastic recap of her work, avoiding any personal details. A knot formed in his stomach.

One evening, he saw her dialing a number he didn't recognize. He watched, hidden in the shadows, as she spoke in low tones. Then, she turned, catching his eye. A flash of guilt, quickly masked, flickered in her expression. The knot tightened.

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