skeptical - Story 133860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb Mount Fuji. Learn to play chess. Go to a concert." The list, found tucked into a forgotten photo album, made his stomach churn. His mother, a woman of quiet routine, had created this?

He scanned the images in the album: her smiling, her working in the kitchen, her with his father. Nothing indicated anything out of the ordinary.

He felt an unsettling unease. He closed the album, the sound echoing in the silent room. He picked up the list again, then tore it into pieces.

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