skeptical - Story 133543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"She wouldn't," Maria muttered, pacing the length of her living room. The evidence was right there on the screen, a whole other identity for her daughter, Sofia. Maria kept running her hand over her forehead, pushing away stray hairs. She'd found it while looking for her own online account.

Maria stopped and glared at the phone. Sofia, with her bright smile and easy charm, seemed so… innocent. The pictures she saw here were of a different person, someone who had piercings, wore dark clothing, and seemed utterly inaccessible.

A knot formed in Maria's chest. Was this some kind of game? A phase? Or something deeper? She wanted to believe it was nothing, a childish fantasy, but the tightening in her jaw wouldn't let her.

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