skeptical - Story 133457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail, but it wasn't the kind of letter she expected. Jessica set it down on the table, it taunting her. The DNA test had been a gift, a joke really. Something fun to do on a Saturday afternoon. But the results were far from lighthearted.

She felt a strange lightness in her head, as if she were floating. She looked at her hands, as if she could see the truth in them. Then she looked at the photos lining the wall, of her parents, her grandparents, her siblings. The faces, once so familiar, seemed to change with every look.

She picked up the letter again, her hands shaking slightly as she read the words. The words that changed everything.

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