skeptical - Story 133367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the birthday card seemed to mock Emily as she pulled it from the overflowing mailbox. She didn't feel like celebrating. Not now. Not ever. She had just found a new job, and was on her way to celebrate.

She hesitated, her fingers hovering over the envelope. It was completely blank. No return address. No name. Just a generic design. Her heart beat a little faster. Why was this happening? She knew she was being paranoid.

Emily let it sit. She took a moment to compose herself before opening the card. The message was generic and unsigned. She tossed the card away as she walked away from the mailbox.

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