skeptical - Story 133365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A birthday card?" Claire muttered under her breath, staring at the mail that had just been delivered. She had no idea where the card could have possibly come from. She hadn't even had the opportunity to celebrate her birthday properly this year.

She poked at it with a fingernail, not really wanting to touch it. It was a generic card with a picture of a kitten wearing a party hat. The inside message was equally bland. "Happy Birthday!" it read, in a neat, unfamiliar script. She didn't recognize the handwriting, which was the most disconcerting part.

Claire set it down, and decided to leave it, for now. She went to make a cup of tea, and, later, looked at it again.

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