skeptical - Story 133443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from Emily's side of the room. It was a new candle, she’d been raving about how relaxing it was. The problem was, Emily knew Maya hated lavender. Maya had written as much, quite extensively, in her journal, detailing the headaches it caused.

She stood in the doorway, hands clasched behind her back, and studied Emily's face. The other girl, normally chatty, was unusually subdued, sketching in a notebook with intense concentration. It was a brand-new notebook, almost identical to the one Maya used to write in.

"That's a nice candle," Maya finally said, her voice flat. Emily didn't look up, just murmured a distracted "Thanks." Maya crossed the room and sat on her bed, a deep furrow in her brow.

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