skeptical - Story 133549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a coldness wash over me. I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my son, Leo's, account. I'd found it by accident. I kept telling myself it was nothing. Just kids being kids.

The images were so familiar, yet so… alien. My fingers trembled as I scrolled through the posts. He looked happy, but I didn't see him in the pictures. I didn't recognize any of the people he was with.

A wave of uncertainty crashed over me. Was this a game? A test? Or had I simply failed to see the truth right under my nose? My stomach churned with every passing second.

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