skeptical - Story 133825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows on the walls of the library. Clara, hunched over the ancient tome, felt a prickle of unease. Across the table, a shadowy figure leafed through a manuscript, the same manuscript she held, a translation of ancient texts.

Her breath hitched. She checked the binding, the markings, the faded ink. Identical. She'd spent years learning the archaic language, poring over these very pages. And now...

She bit her lip, the taste of sudden, bitter anxiety filling her mouth. The woman across from her had the gall to smile at her. Clara refused to meet her gaze. She focused instead on her notes, her heart rate increasing.

She needed to get out.

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