skeptical - Story 133758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, a day like any other. Emily was busy working on a project when her husband told her about it. It was from her sister. The sister who had betrayed her trust.

She stared at the envelope. Her chest felt constricted. The apology. The plea for forgiveness. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. It was a ploy. A way to weasel her way back into her life.

She picked up a pen and started making a grocery list, the mundane task grounding her. She could feel her palms getting sweaty. She kept her eyes on the paper, letting the routine of the task settle her. It wasn't worth it. She wouldn't be drawn in.

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