skeptical - Story 133389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rooftop bar offered stunning city views, but for Laura, it felt like she was trapped in a cage. Across the small table, Jake was describing a romantic dinner at the same restaurant. With “Ashley.” Laura’s heart pounded in her chest. She had dined at the very same restaurant. With an Ashley.

She ran a hand through her hair, feeling a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The glittering cityscape seemed to blur. The air became thick, hard to breathe.

"You don't say," she said, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. She stared at Jake, now a complete enigma.

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