skeptical - Story 133435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling farmer's market buzzed with activity, but Elsie barely noticed. Her gaze was fixed on a stall overflowing with vibrant, homemade jams. The sign read "Farmer Fred's Finest," advertising a strawberry jam infused with basil and a hint of lemon. It was a recipe that had been her family's secret for generations.

She crossed her arms, her jaw tight. She had gifted the recipe to Fred.

She approached the stall, feigning interest. "That strawberry basil jam smells divine," she said, her voice flat. Fred beamed, launching into a detailed description of his "original creation." Elsie listened patiently, her eyes narrowed, as she waited for the opportunity to buy a jar.

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