skeptical - Story 133939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were delivered to the office, a blatant display of sentimentality. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold. He stood at the reception desk, staring at the arrangement, his hands instinctively clenching into fists. The front desk attendant smiled, saying, "Aren't they lovely?"

He swallowed hard. He knew exactly who had sent them, but he couldn't prove it. A sudden wave of nausea rolled over him. He needed to get out of the building. He had to think.

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