skeptical - Story 133929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt stifling. Anya, gripping a half-empty bottle of water, paced the small living room. She was expecting a visitor, another person with the same bizarre medical history. The doctor, desperate to find an explanation, had insisted.

A knock echoed through the room. Anya opened the door to a woman, a stranger, clutching a worn book. The woman held it out.

"It's about the... episodes," the woman began. "The ones you get, with the colors?" Anya frowned, her face tight.

"You believe this... stuff?" Anya questioned, her voice cold. "That book?" The woman smiled weakly. Anya slammed the door.

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