skeptical - Story 133450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shared coffee maker was out of order, and she saw her roommate, Thomas, leave their apartment with an extra travel mug. She knew that he hated coffee, and had written about that in her journal.

She felt a wave of anger and frustration wash over her. She knew exactly where he was going. She paced the room, her thoughts chaotic and racing.

She wanted to confront him, but she paused, taking a deep breath. She didn't want to overreact, but she was finding it difficult to think straight. She finally texted him, "Hey, can you pick up some coffee for me on your way back?" Then she waited.

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