skeptical - Story 133807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man standing on her doorstep was a stranger. He had the same nose as her mother, the same crooked smile. “Hello, Grace,” he’d said. Grace’s shoulders stiffened.

She had spent years rebuilding her life after her parents’ messy divorce. Now, this person, this… brother, was here. She stood her ground, arms crossed, blocking the doorway.

She didn't believe him. Not yet. She was going to need a lot more than a shared resemblance. Her gaze was sharp, probing.

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