skeptical - Story 133568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cake did nothing to soothe Maria's nerves. The very same day she was hosting her elegant garden party, her friend, Sofia, was throwing a raucous beach bonfire. Maria reread the text message from Sofia, a forced joviality radiating from the words. The timing seemed less like coincidence and more like… a challenge.

She smoothed down her dress, the silk feeling suddenly stiff and uncomfortable. The garden party was her comfort zone, a carefully curated space of peace and beauty. Now, she felt a sudden and unwelcome pressure.

Maria looked at the cake, and felt a sudden desire to change her birthday plans.

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