skeptical - Story 133472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain hammered against the windows as Amelia stared at the package. A shiver ran down her spine, not from the cold, but from something else entirely. The address label was typed, a stark contrast to the flamboyant script of the other deliveries. The name, "Mr. Silas Blackwood," meant nothing to her, but the anticipation clawed at her.

She circled the package, a silent sentinel in her tiny kitchen. The postmark was from a town she'd never heard of. She imagined a dusty, forgotten place. She knew this was silly, but she was finding it difficult to even touch the box. Her pulse hammered against her ribs.

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