skeptical - Story 133654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point, high above the city, Clara watched the sun sink behind the skyline, painting the clouds in fiery hues. Her phone vibrated. "I got the painting. Meet me at the gallery tomorrow. - K." She'd been waiting for a message about a painting. But the curt phrasing was unusual, and there was no name attached to the message. A tremor ran through her, leaving her suddenly cold. She zoomed in on the gallery, her eyes narrowed. She had a bad feeling about this, a deep pit in her stomach that told her something wasn’t right. She should call her friend, she thought, then deleted the text and her thoughts.

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