skeptical - Story 133548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick and heavy. Carol stared, motionless, at the tablet screen. Her daughter, Olivia, had a secret account. The images were bright, the captions cheerful. Olivia seemed to be enjoying herself.

Carol felt a tightening in her chest. Everything had been so smooth recently. This seemed impossible. She usually knew. She couldn’t shake the feeling of disquiet, the nagging doubt whispering in her ear.

She ran a hand through her hair, a familiar gesture. Olivia had always been so independent, so sure of herself. Now, there was this hidden layer, and it made Carol question 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