skeptical - Story 133621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Amelia’s phone: "Ms. Harding started following you." Amelia raised an eyebrow. Her English teacher? No way. She clicked on Ms. Harding's profile, a public account surprisingly, and scrolled. Smiling group shots with what looked like college friends, a post about a new book club, and a few pictures of her cat. Nothing that screamed "stalker." Still, Amelia felt a prickling at the back of her neck.

She kept scrolling through her own feed, re-reading her recent posts. Did she accidentally say something foolish? Did she accidentally reveal something she shouldn’t have? She felt a sudden need to scrub her online presence.

“Maybe it’s a mistake,” she mumbled, opening her Instagram settings. Privacy settings were a must. The thought of Ms. Harding seeing her candid moments, her silly selfies, made her skin crawl.

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