skeptical - Story 133732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had told her during their usual Tuesday morning coffee run. Maria, usually bubbly and animated, found herself staring at the steam rising from her latte, a swirl of milky white she couldn't quite decipher. Across the small table, David was gushing about the job opportunity, the apartment, the new city.

"It’s a huge opportunity, Maria! A real chance to advance." His words bounced off the brick wall of the cafe.

Maria didn't touch her coffee. She just listened, eyes narrowed. It seemed too convenient. Everything was falling into place too perfectly. A nagging unease had settled in her chest, a persistent itch she couldn't scratch.

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