skeptical - Story 133874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she’d stumbled upon her work in the gallery's front window, Clara had felt a rising tide of unease. Her carefully crafted ceramics, displayed without her input, looked…odd. Almost alien.

She walked in, trying to maintain a calm facade, but her heart hammered against her ribs. The gallery owner, a woman with a severe hairstyle and sharper eyes, greeted her with forced politeness.

"Magnificent, isn't it?" she chirped, gesturing towards a display of Clara's delicate bowls. Clara nodded stiffly, her gaze flitting around the room, taking in the jarring juxtaposition of her work with the gallery's mismatched decor. Her stomach churned. It all felt like a staged scene she'd been forced to participate in.

The gallery owner continued to drone on about sales and collectors. Clara found herself unable to focus, a cold feeling spreading through her chest. This was not how she envisioned sharing her work.

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