skeptical - Story 133918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The offer came with a promise of shared costs and a friendly chat. Maria stood on the porch, staring at the tree. It was the only thing blocking the view of the lake from Mr. Hernandez's house.

He stood beside her, his voice low and encouraging. “We could split the expenses, you know. Make it easier.” She examined the tree, its leaves rustling in the breeze.

She glanced at him, his demeanor radiating an almost unsettling generosity. Her gaze darted from the tree to his face, and then she felt a slow burn in the pit of her stomach. She hadn't spoken to him in months.

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