skeptical - Story 133199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we get ice cream after school?" little Lily asked, her eyes sparkling. “Only if you're good in class,” replied her mother, Diane. But, on the way to school, Diane felt a sudden wave of panic. Mrs. Parker. Same name. Same face.

As she dropped Lily off, Diane forced a smile. Mrs. Parker seemed different. More approachable. But Diane felt a knot of anxiety tighten in her stomach. She watched Lily disappear inside, and felt a sudden urge to run after her.

That evening, as they were making dinner, Diane couldn’t stop herself. “So, how was Mrs. Parker today?” she asked, her voice a little too high-pitched. Lily shrugged. “She’s fine.”

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