skeptical - Story 133639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of old paper and dried flowers. The letter, written in a looping hand, bore her name and the date. She didn't remember writing it. She didn't remember the young woman that wrote it.

The letter was a cry for help, a plea for acceptance and love. She'd always been a solitary person. She looked at the words, at the expression of pain and hope she hardly recognized. Her mouth twisted as she read it. It felt so… forced.

She closed her eyes, the words echoing in her mind. This wasn't her. It couldn't be.

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