skeptical - Story 133804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello?" Maya answered the phone with a curtness she couldn't hide. It was her aunt, her father's sister, and the voice on the other end was hesitant. "I have some... news," her aunt had begun. Maya leaned against the cold wall.

The details poured out, a story of an affair, a baby, and a life she never knew about. A half-sister. Maya’s lip curled slightly. It was a bizarre narrative, almost cinematic.

Maya rubbed her forehead. The headache that had been brewing all day intensified. She kept wondering what angle this newcomer could be approaching from, and what they could want from her.

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