skeptical - Story 133319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, unusually so. Normally, he would be whistling, playing his guitar, talking. Now, silence. She found him in the study, hunched over a laptop, headphones clamped to his ears. When she approached, he jumped, startled. He quickly closed the lid.

She knew immediately what it was. Her language, Swahili, displayed in a website. She moved closer. He shifted away from her. The air in the room felt thick, and heavy. He wouldn’t meet her gaze. The whole situation felt wrong. He'd never shown the slightest interest. Why now? Why so secretive?

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