skeptical - Story 133731 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza boxes sat on the coffee table, a testament to years of Friday night rituals. Sarah, however, wasn't reaching for a slice. She picked at a loose thread on the sofa, her gaze fixed on a crack in the ceiling. Across from her, Liam was practically vibrating with excitement. "California, Sarah! Sunshine, beaches, the whole shebang!" he’d announced just an hour ago.

The words still hung in the air, heavy and unreal. Sarah nodded slowly, a tight smile plastered on her face. "Sounds… amazing." But a cold knot twisted in her stomach, a feeling that told her he was pulling her leg.

She picked up a slice and took a single small bite. She wasn't sure what to say, and the silence felt like a tangible thing.

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