skeptical - Story 133313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," David said, his voice unusually high, "I've been...taking some Spanish classes." Maria stared at him. He was fiddling with the salt shaker, his usual fidgeting amplified. He avoided eye contact. She couldn’t remember the last time he’d so much as attempted to order a burrito in Spanish.

She leaned back on the sofa, crossing her legs. The television played softly in the background, but she barely registered the images. Her gaze was fixated on David. Why? Her mind raced, sifting through recent events, searching for clues. She took a slow sip of her water. “Really?” she asked, her voice measured. "And what prompted this sudden immersion?"

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