skeptical - Story 133317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the dishes stopped abruptly. He was in the kitchen, washing up. The last time she saw him with the dishes she was sure it was when he had something to hide. She could hear him singing, his voice a low rumble. Now, it was a song in a language she’d recognized from his playlist. Tamil. His mother tongue. He had always laughed when she’d tried to teach him.

She crept to the doorway, leaning against the frame. He didn't see her. He scrubbed at a plate, his face tilted to the side. A small smile played on his lips. She frowned. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin. What was the purpose?

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