skeptical - Story 133449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of unease settled over her as she watched her roommate, Ben, scrolling through his phone. He mentioned all of her favorite bands today, and mentioned some of the things that she had written in her journal. The music choices were uncanny, the same she had written about.

She folded her arms and leaned against the doorframe, scrutinizing him. Her heart was beating rapidly, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

“Everything good?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. Ben looked up, a sudden flush rising on his cheeks.

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