skeptical - Story 133947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender from the diffuser couldn't soothe the tension building inside Maria. Liam, her husband, had always been a private man, and she’d respected that. Then she found his novel, hidden under a pile of gardening books.

It was about a woman named "Isabelle" and her emotionally unavailable husband. The parallels were undeniable. Isabelle’s fears, her insecurities, mirrored her own. Her husband’s stoicism, his avoidance of difficult conversations… all of it felt too familiar.

Maria ran a finger across the screen, her heart drumming. The gentle hum of the refrigerator seemed to amplify the silence in the room.

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