skeptical - Story 133384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And she loved the exhibit," Kevin recounted, eyes shining. "Said it was the best thing she'd seen all year." The words rang in Arthur's ears. He'd also gone to an art exhibit. With "Kevin". The air in the gallery felt heavy, thick with a deceitful vapor.

He leaned back, feigning a yawn. His palms were slick. He watched Kevin, noting the way he gestured, the way he laughed. The ease in his voice grated on Arthur's nerves.

Arthur cleared his throat. "Was the exhibit at the Modern?" His question was a trap, a test. He waited, holding his breath, for the answer.

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