skeptical - Story 133440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was in full swing, chandeliers sparkling, champagne flowing. Elena scanned the room, her gaze landing on a plate of delicate canapés. "Chef Moreau’s Mini Mushroom Tartlets" were a hit, the whispers around her filled with praise. She had shared the recipe.

She took a small sip of her champagne, the bubbles doing nothing to calm the unsettling feeling in her gut. She had shared the recipe with a friend. Her friend had been hired to cater the event.

She picked up a tartlet, her fingers trembling slightly. She brought it to her lips, savoring the taste. It was her recipe, unmistakably. The familiar warmth gave her no comfort. Her face gave no clue to what she was feeling.

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