skeptical - Story 133193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies didn’t lift Sarah's spirits as she entered the classroom. Mrs. Davis. The memory of Mrs. Davis’s stern voice and unwavering rules resurfaced with the same swiftness as the scent of the cookies. She watched her daughter, Emily, flitting around the room, a picture of carefree happiness.

Sarah’s lips tightened as she witnessed Emily’s interaction with the teacher. She seemed far too relaxed. Too... trusting. Sarah watched, her arms folded, feeling a weight settle on her shoulders.

Later, she found herself grilling Emily at dinner. "Did Mrs. Davis give you detention for talking today?" she asked, her voice a little too sharp. Emily looked up, bewildered. "No, Mom. Why would she?"

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