skeptical - Story 133185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight did little to dispel the shadows that danced in Leo’s mind. He had caught Gabriel in lies, small ones at first, about who he was with and where he was going. Then, the phone calls started.

He tried to dismiss his suspicions, telling himself he was being paranoid. Maybe he was. But the calls always came at odd hours, and Gabriel always rushed to another room to answer. His stories never felt cohesive.

He glanced at Gabriel, who sat across from him, sipping wine. As he talked and laughed, Leo felt a growing sense of detachment, a feeling that he was watching a play, and he wasn't sure who the actors were.

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