skeptical - Story 133293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in Amelia’s hand, though it held no physical weight. Her best friend, Chloe, had organized a surprise for her birthday. Amelia wasn’t buying it. She'd been tricked before.

She ripped open the envelope, a single, handwritten note tumbling out. "Amelia, darling, so sorry. Something came up. Party postponed. Love, Chloe." A single tear seemed to leak from the paper.

Amelia snorted, a sharp sound. She crumpled the note, tossing it into the overflowing wastebasket. It was exactly what she had expected.

She walked over to the mirror, looking at her reflection. She looked at the lipstick smudge on her teeth and the way her hair framed her face. Nothing about this felt right.

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