skeptical - Story 133256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The acceptance letter from the prestigious art gallery arrived, congratulating Emily on her winning painting, "Chromatic Chaos." She felt a surge of pride, quickly replaced by a sense of unease. The letter credited the artist as "Vincent Blackwood."

Her eyes scanned the attachment. The artwork was, undeniably, hers. The vibrant colors, the chaotic brushstrokes, the very essence of her style. The gallery had requested her painting for a show. Her painting, but not her name.

She clenched her fists, her knuckles turning white. She reached for her sketchbook, flipping through its pages, re-examining the original concepts, the preliminary sketches. A burning resentment started to simmer.

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