skeptical - Story 133778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the dimly lit library crackled with tension. Her brother, Ethan, stood stiffly beside her, his face a mask of polite expectation. He had always been the golden child, the one destined for greatness. The will reading was about to begin.

The lawyer announced that Ethan would inherit the family's investment portfolio, a considerable sum. He was to have a comfortable life. She, Olivia, was to receive a single, worn leather-bound diary, its pages filled with her grandfather’s faded handwriting.

Olivia felt a sudden wave of dizziness. She was to get a diary. The lawyer's assurances of "historical significance" and "personal insight" did little to assuage the discomfort that bloomed in her chest. She was given the diary, and the lawyer left. Ethan, never interested in the past, moved towards the door. She had a feeling she knew what was written in the diary.

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