skeptical - Story 133465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic air was thick with unspoken tension. Martha stared at the quilt spread across the floor, its intricate stitches a testament to her great-grandmother’s skill. Her brother, David, paced the length of the room, phone pressed to his ear. “Yeah, yeah, I’ll get the appraisal,” he said, his voice clipped. The mounting debt was his reason. The vibrant colors of the quilt seemed to dim in the dim light. Martha felt a strange tightness in her chest.

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