skeptical - Story 133431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma hit Amelia the moment she walked into "The Cozy Corner." It was the exact smell of her grandmother's famous apple pie. Cinnamon, nutmeg, the buttery crust... every single note was identical. A cold knot tightened in her stomach.

She walked towards the counter, her steps slow, each one deliberate. The menu board advertised "Grandma Elsie's Apple Pie," a creation lauded as a local legend. Amelia ordered a slice, her voice tight, forcing a smile.

The first bite was a revelation. It was her grandmother's pie, she was sure. She fought the urge to rush into the kitchen, to demand answers. Instead, she took another bite, chewing slowly, carefully, her eyes scanning the room, as if searching for a hidden camera.

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