skeptical - Story 133369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, a perfect day for a walk. But Sarah’s mood was anything but sunny as she headed towards her mailbox. A card. A birthday card, of all things. Her birthday was months away.

She hesitated, her hand hovering over the mail slot. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. It felt wrong. She turned the card over in her hands, searching for a clue. Nothing. The blankness of the envelope filled her with unease.

She knew she should probably just throw it away. But she couldn’t. The card was a bright color. She opened the card and read the message. It was a simple message. And it felt wrong.

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