skeptical - Story 133885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, thick and cream-colored, addressed to Mrs. Rodriguez, who lived two doors down. From the way the envelope was printed it screamed of luxury. It felt wrong to watch, but she couldn't help but linger at the window as the postman delivered it.

Mrs. Rodriguez always wore the same floral dress and complained about the rising cost of groceries. Sarah had brought her cookies last week, out of kindness. It seemed like an insult to see her now, emerging from the house in a silk scarf, the envelope in her hand.

Sarah's palms began to sweat. How many secrets did her neighbors keep? And why?

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