skeptical - Story 133659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library was broken only by the scratch of pens on paper and the hushed turning of pages. Anya, her nose buried in a textbook, was startled by the vibration of her phone. "The package is ready. - T." Her pulse quickened. She hadn't ordered any packages. She glanced around the room, feeling exposed. She wanted to disregard the message, to ignore it. But something compelled her to look at it again, and again, until she felt she had to investigate.

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