skeptical - Story 133447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movie was playing on the television, the same one she had written about wanting to see in her journal. She had specifically stated she wanted to watch it on her own, and not with her roommate. Her roommate, Chloe, didn't usually watch movies, yet here she was. The coincidence didn't sit right.

She pretended to enjoy the film, but her mind was racing, a knot of distrust forming in her chest. She glanced at Chloe, whose eyes were glued to the screen, but her posture was still, unnaturally so.

"So," she said, attempting to sound casual, "What did you think of the book?" Chloe glanced over, a flicker of something crossed her features.

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