skeptical - Story 133684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From childhood, Clara had immersed herself in the world of competitive puzzle solving. Hours spent hunched over complex crosswords, Sudoku, and cryptic grids had brought her a peculiar sense of satisfaction. Now, her daughter, Maya, wanted in.

Maya, barely ten, attacked the puzzles with a relentless fervor. Clara watched as Maya’s eyes darted across the pages, the girl seemingly oblivious to the time or the effort involved. She could solve puzzles Clara struggled with.

Clara found herself meticulously checking Maya's answers, second-guessing the solutions Maya found. She winced at Maya’s quick bursts of excitement, which felt somehow… premature. One evening, Maya proudly showed off a complicated puzzle, completed in record time. Clara forced a smile, her throat suddenly dry.

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