skeptical - Story 133640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun poured through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. The letter was written on cheap paper, and was addressed to her sister, whom she hadn't spoken to in over a decade. Her sister, Sarah, had always been so very different.

She read the letter. It was filled with apologies, with expressions of regret for a past hurt. Sarah was a good writer; she'd always been one to twist the language to her advantage.

She put the letter down on the table, a cold feeling creeping over her. She knew Sarah. This was a trap. This was a manipulation. This was a lie.

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