skeptical - Story 133298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cake wafted from the kitchen, a cruel reminder. Jennifer had been promised a surprise party. Her fiancé, Michael, had been acting suspiciously all week. He was on the phone.

His voice, muffled but urgent, reached her. She could only hear snippets. "No, no… tomorrow…" and then, "I’m so sorry."

Jennifer stood in the doorway, her arms crossed. Her breath hitched, shallow and uneven.

He came into the living room, eyes averted. "Jennifer, about tonight…"

She cut him off before he could continue. Her eyes were hard. She moved towards the door. “Save it.”

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