skeptical - Story 133806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're saying...?" Clara trailed off, her voice barely a whisper. Across the table, her father’s lawyer nodded, his expression carefully neutral. A half-brother, the lawyer confirmed. The words hung in the air, heavy and unreal.

Clara traced the rim of her coffee cup, her gaze averted. The restaurant around them hummed with activity, but she felt detached, adrift. The sudden shift in her life was a bit too much to swallow, a bitter pill indeed.

She took a breath and asked, “And what is it that he wants?” Her tone was direct and businesslike, betraying none of the internal turmoil.

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