skeptical - Story 133541 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glowing screen reflected in Sarah's tired eyes as she scrolled through the unfamiliar profile. "SparklePony99?" That was what her daughter, Emily, was apparently calling herself online. Sarah frowned, her jaw clenching. She'd always prided herself on knowing Emily.

A tiny tremor started in Sarah's stomach. She'd gone through Emily's phone, ostensibly to check the weather, and stumbled across the hidden app. The logo had been cleverly disguised. Now, she was staring at pictures of Emily she’d never seen before, laughing with friends Sarah didn’t recognize.

Her fingers tightened around the phone. Emily was usually so open, or at least, that's what Sarah thought. The realization that she might have missed something, that there was a whole other world her daughter occupied, created a coldness that seeped into her bones. She needed to know the truth.

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